#ra

We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#iraq #islamic #significant #tangled #very

I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#friends #good #good friends #got #i

Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally repulsed by him and therefore, repulsed by the sport. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#generally #him #love #might #mike

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#comfortable #doctrine #happiness #misery #moral

Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#generally #noises #thought #true

The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#oneself #problem #whole

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork. ↗

— Alex Ferguson

#canada #first #fly #france #geese

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#behind #come #crap #free #free press

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#answers #asking #author #composer #expecting

Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out. ↗

— Sally Schneider

#course #first #hors #i #like