#pert

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#ambitious #contract #covering #devious #discovery

In the fields I know best, among the life sciences, it is required that the most expert and sophisticated minds be capable of changing course - often with a great lurch - every few years. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#best #capable #changing #course #every

It's kind of scary sometimes, I've seen this a lot in Asia. Children are given music lessons, very intensively I might add and involving great technical expertise sometimes, but you can tell that they have been told only to play happy pleasant music. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#asia #been #children #expertise #given

What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#angles #come #create #drama #either

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. ↗

— Mark Twain

#because #call #dull #dumb #his

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#blow #done #expert #itself #last

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#english language #imagination #itself #language #nobody

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice. ↗

— Scott Walker

#education #either #false #go #poor

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy. ↗

— Steven Weinberg

#errors #expert #fallacy #grand #person

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties. ↗

— William Weld

#functions #government #just #liberties #our