#respectable

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#i #knows #legitimate #like #music

Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did? ↗

— Ann Coulter

#his #john #john kerry #kerry #know

These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#books #days #infamous #listen #made

The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#also #brother #glory #i #i think

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#economic #forecasting #function #look #make

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

OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for. ↗

— Joely Richardson

#american films #being #big #career #exciting

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

— Tom Robbins

#got #order #respectable #respected

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me. ↗

— Ida Tarbell

#against #belonged #chance #circle #circles

My work is not great, but it's respectable. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#respectable #work