#pen

My parents wanted me to grow up around horses and open spaces. ↗

— Schuyler Fisk

#grow #grow up #horses #me #open

I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times. ↗

— Curt Flood

#ever #happened #i #i do #many

It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#homeland #just #little #mission #off

In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in Iraq do not accept the current state of affairs. ↗

— Dario Fo

#affairs #american #circumstances #current #current state

Domestic travel and tourism-related spending has reached $1 trillion a year. ↗

— Mark Foley

#reached #spending #travel #trillion #year

At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. I hope this isn't too melodramatic or self-centred a way of saying that I attempt to write as if I did not care what reviewers said, what peers thought, or what prevailing opinions may be. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#death #independence #nadine-gordimer #writing #death

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#expense #flatterers #listen #live #them

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#empty #mind #open #purpose #replace

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#empty #mind #open #purpose #replace

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#diversity #independently #thinking #together