#respectable

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#economic #forecasting #function #look #make

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh. ↗

— Moliere

#laugh #make #people #respectable #strange

A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#considered #discontented #embassy #fellow #filled

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#got #order #respectable #respected

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable. ↗

— Will Rogers

#big #big enough #build #enough #respectable

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#dialogue #i #i write #only #plays

I always channel my emotions into my work. That way I won't hurt anyone but myself. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#respect

I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!' ↗

— David Guetta

#businessman #career #education #every #finally

It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such a portent as a respectable poet. You say you are a poet of law; I say you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not comets and earthquakes on the night you appeared in this garden. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#comets #cruel-colors #earthquakes #garden #night

Since when was genius found respectable? ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#genius #respectable #since