#sen

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#children #extent #fellow #his #must

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#better #carries #countries #enjoy #fortune

I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#almost #artist #day #every #every day

Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#consent #does #mean #rubber #rubber stamp

My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#always #behind #dad #daughter #deserved

I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#connor #court #day #first #got

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart. ↗

— Washington Irving

#imagination #operates #senses #spell #true

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense. ↗

— John Irving

#each #even #family #just #make

And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you. ↗

— John Irving

#begin #connections #first #i #important

I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey. ↗

— John Irving

#atmosphere #begin #convey #ending #happens