#over

Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#every #i #life #magazine #magazine cover

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#because #book #create #different #effects

When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#been #brick #brick wall #convinced #divided

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#economics #economists #employment #extremely #form

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#agreeable #allow #beach #does #eliminating

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#overrated #vastly #virtue

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#cannot #discover #help #only #over it

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#deserving #desire #each #eyes #facade

Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#certain #certain extent #charter #charter schools #control

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#forms #government #majority #mass #prejudice