#pose

We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think. ↗

— Tony Hancock

#both #certain #certain extent #erm #extent

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#leisure #liberal #liberal education #make #mind

If Al Gore had allowed us and if the Florida Supreme Court had not intervened and rewritten the law, which they're not supposed to do, we could have certified, which is a mere procedural action, and then after that, they could have petitioned any justice for a recount statewide with uniform standards. ↗

— Katherine Harris

#after #al #al gore #allowed #any

It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#dawn #dead #difficult #escape #film

And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#damning #embarrassing #i #nfl #owners

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#better #generally #good #languages #less

I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts. ↗

— Joseph Haydn

#composed #efforts #great #i #never

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. ↗

— Werner Heisenberg

#itself #method #nature #observe #our

It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one. ↗

— Richard Helms

#cathartic #dickensian #expended #frustration #i

My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#artists #deeply #engaging #entire #everything