#rot

We pass bills authorizing improvements and grants. But when it comes time to pay for these programs, we'd rather put the country's money toward tax breaks for the wealthy than for police officers who are protecting our communities. ↗

— David E. Price

#bills #breaks #comes #communities #country

I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions. ↗

— Richard Price

#book #close #different #i #i can

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#comedy #itself #may #protecting #say

It's a very weird thing. When you see your house naked, you feel very protective of it and of the people who lived here before. ↗

— Emily Procter

#feel #here #house #lived #naked

When I was 8, my favorite toy was a stapler. My brother was afraid of me. ↗

— Emily Procter

#brother #favorite #i #me #toy

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#comes #composed #everything #founded #great

I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation. ↗

— Bill Pullman

#brother #his #i #operation #ranch

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#condemned #hope #most #pardon #solitude

So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#armaments #attained #case #country #disarmament

Bob Taylor and I playing brothers. And I was a Mexican bandit. And he was the sheriff of the town. And we loved each other. We loved each other very much. ↗

— Anthony Quinn

#bob #brothers #each #i #loved