#pro

Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying. ↗

— Elayne Boosler

#direct #every #every night #go #go home

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left. ↗

— Robert Bork

#because #change #congress #constitution #constitutional

My wife says that my tombstone will read, 'Here lies Mr.C, who used to be Mr.B.' So I think that's probably what I'll be remembered for. ↗

— Tom Bosley

#i #i think #lies #mr #probably

The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened. ↗

— George C. Williams

#fallacy #fertilization #happened #implies #never

The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication. ↗

— Rick Boucher

#backbone #being #being used #bill #communication

It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true. ↗

— James Richardson

#proverbs #truth #wisdom #equality

I've got problems and if you sentence me to additional time, I'm going to compound them. ↗

— Gary Gilmore

#compound #going #got #i #me

I am not a professional politician. ↗

— John Bolton

#i #i am #politician #professional

Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players. ↗

— Frank Woolley

#believe #cricket #day #great #i

The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving. ↗