#ron

People always have an opinion. Doesn't mean it's right, doesn't mean it's wrong, but we have to respect their opinion. ↗

— Michael Clarke Duncan

#mean #opinion #people #respect #right

Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#cities #created #enormous #environmental #general

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on. ↗

— Robert Bloch

#else #go #man #smile #someone

It's strange because even in the vaudeville days, ventriloquists were never the main attraction. They were the guys brought out to stand in front of the curtain while sets were being changed. Ventriloquism wasn't even celebrated as an art until Edgar Bergen came along in the 1930s. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#art #attraction #because #being #brought

It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#because #being #being strong #brave #doing

You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that. ↗

— Claire Bloom

#marilyn #marilyn monroe #monroe #pretend #really

No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#crucial #enough #even #ever #every

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#oxymoron #successful #take #therapy

I have strong sentiments toward Iran, since I distinguish between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people. I highly esteem Iranian music and culture. ↗

— Moshe Katsav

#culture #distinguish #esteem #highly #i

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life. ↗

— Dorothy Dunnett

#because #chess #chronicles #design #each