#says

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#history #i #influence #lies #logic

Food won't go down when you know your mother didn't want you, never liked to feed you, always hated you in her rooms. You were wrong to clutch and swallow and move your mouth. You must not be flushed, layered in fat or ripe from meat or she will despise your sight. Your skeleton cries, "I make no demands, I am ashamed of my needs, I am unworthy. I'm aware of those more deserving, those with prior and urgent claims to food." Skeleton says, "My safety is in slightness, my pride is denial. My victory is no gluttony, no guilt. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#jenny-holzer #food

This resolution simply says Israel has the right to defend itself. This includes conducting operations both inside its borders and in the territory of nations that threaten it, which is in accordance with international law. ↗

— John Boehner

#borders #both #conducting #defend #includes

I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that. ↗

— Olafur Eliasson

#buy #collector #director #his #i

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#anybody #first #first thing #getting #giddy

The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful. ↗

— David Boies

#audio #consumers #copying #directly #home

I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver. ↗

— Elizabeth Emken

#democrat #establishment #i #political #problem

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#book #club #computer #getting #hospital

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock. ↗

— Sam Ervin

#executive #extend #nothing #out #past

I'm a wonderful disaster. So are you. We're all a mess. We're in this culture that says take this pill and you'll be happy, go on this diet and you'll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#culture #diet #disaster #go #happy