#person

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#alice #encyclopedia #i #personally #sooner

Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space. ↗

— Leon Foucault

#brought #carrying #fact #few #forever

In the time it takes to heat a TV dinner, Clinton had convinced me that he was the smartest person in the room and that I was the center of his attention. In the next 25 years, I would see countless others fall just as quickly to the Clinton Touch. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#center #clinton #convinced #countless #dinner

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#choice #critical #director #first #important

I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in his life had been going to work in the company of other workers. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#before #company #father #going #got

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security. ↗

— Louis Freeh

#american people #degree #exchange #give #must

My different personalities leave me in peace now. ↗

— Anna Freud

#different personalities #leave #me #now #peace

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#collect #existed #form #friends #graphic

You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#down #fall #going #just #like

Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand whatever information I gave them to the Russian authorities. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#completely #contact #continuous #except #gave