#pros

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. ↗

— Christopher Fry

#attention #being #drawback #full #give

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#being #camera #century #creative #creative life

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#degree #distress #expects #face #highest

But I really believe it is in America's interest as well as that of the free world more generally to stop Iran from getting its hands on nuclear weapons. This regime has threatened to wipe Israel off the map and bring about a world without America, and either of those is a really bad prospect. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#america #bad #believe #bring #either

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#because #concentrating #effort #novels #prose

I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury. ↗

— George Galloway

#demanding #i #perjury #prosecuted

We all get a little rush of excitement at the prospect of buying a brand-new outfit for a first date, but this is not the time. You're much better off wearing clothes, shoes especially, that you've already tested. ↗

— Nina Garcia

#better #better off #brand-new #buying #clothes

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. ↗

— Horace

#conceals #genius #prosperity #reveals

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man? ↗

— Jim Garrison

#derive #even #guilty #hounded #i

The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat. ↗

— Susan George

#buy #contrary #dietary #first #first thing