#out

You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#again #ancestors #ancestry #black #forced

Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life. ↗

— Larry Gelbart

#audience #knows #life #more #television

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#hidden #know #meaning #must #philosophy

I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half. ↗

— Uri Geller

#bent #broke #eating #five #half

Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#anything #could #did #how #i

From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too. ↗

— Melissa George

#always #brother #costumes #creative #dad

I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#am #both #degree #did #enough

A blond in a red dress can do without introductions - but not without a bodyguard. ↗

— Rona Jaffe

#bodyguard #but not without #dress #red #without

I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

#architecture #college #columbia #drive #i

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die. ↗

— Judy Garland

#die #died #haven #i #i think