#om

Those who know me know I won't hesitate to turn around and point someone out. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#hesitate #i #know #me #out

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#combat #experience #fewer #increasingly #journalists

On my income tax 1040 it says "Check this box if you are blind." I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#away #blind #box #check #i

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#exactly #figure #first #full-time #full-time job

I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#dennis miller #i #jon #jon stewart #like

When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#fifty-two #food #get #important #more

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#satirical #somebody #you

And there's always one special element. In 'There Goes My Baby,' it's the out-of-tune timpani. 'Stand by Me,' it's the bass pattern. Of course, all the elements come together to make a great record. But there's always one standout. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#baby #bass #come #course #element

It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#cause #changes #come #external #follows

The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something funky. In the summertime, sometimes there'd be a man sitting on a step, playing an acoustic guitar, playing some kind of folk blues. The seed had been planted. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#acoustic guitar #baltimore #be a man #been #blues