#pear

One of the local reporters assured me Garrison would put in an appearance for the cross-examination, but as the courtroom settled down and the rear doors were closed, there was no sign of him. ↗

— James Kirkwood

#assured #closed #courtroom #doors #down

To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#been #body #energy #human #human nature

The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#myself #nearest #shakespeare #would

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#become #differences #disappear #feeble #give

When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#air #air conditioning #almost #also #appeared

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#book #books #could #disappear #escape

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance. ↗

— Michael Korda

#attending #biggest #does #fool #his

Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor. ↗

— Harvey Korman

#going #got #i #out #service

Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#card #cash #changed #coming #credit

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#behind #civilization #culture #disappear #existence