#side

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#eye #idea #no idea #outlandish #same

Remember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the attack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American people thought they were seeing a man suddenly thrust into a grave challenge no one could have anticipated. ↗

— Howard Fineman

#american people #andy #anticipated #attack #being

The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#aide #behind #being #billion #call

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#asked #being #choice #current #election

It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#actions #capable #consider #dishonorable #effect

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#feel #i #i feel #i think #myself

I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#anybody #basically #caught #consider #fair

Gone are the days when a gentleman lightly took your hand in his and brushed his lips across it, or tipped his hat to acknowledge you as he chivalrously stepped aside to let you pass. ↗

— Joan Collins

#across #aside #brushed #days #gentleman

I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like Jack Benny. ↗

— Joan Collins

#benny #case #consider #feel #i

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#idea #keen #life #outside #own