#rating

I would be surprised to see the White House scaling back on anything. That would be an admission they are operating from a position of weakness. ↗

— Rich Galen

#anything #back #house #i #operating

Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#before #everyone #him #i #liberating

A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#been #collaborating #commissioned #composers #i

I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I'm not going to judge. ↗

— Frank Black

#cool #cool thing #dickens #going #great

It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so close and then lose a huge movie and sometimes it's one kid who beats you out for three different movies. It's so frustrating at the time, but what's so great is the lesson you take from that, which is, 'I've got to get better.' ↗

— Jason Dohring

#because #been #better #career #close

A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis. ↗

— Karen Duffy

#chose #clear #diagnosis #frustrating #having

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#cause #critic #demonstrate #demonstrating #every

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about. ↗

— Sam Ewing

#arguing #frustrating #knows #nothing #someone

The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#american #american people #army #creating #dangerous

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

#come #every #every man #far #influences