#sign

Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#autograph #back #being #cigarette #fame

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#conscious #detached #feelings #impossible #informed

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#fatigue #good #guests #money #nowadays

The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#case #constitutes #efforts #exception #government

We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#beginnings #called #could #deaths #ended

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with. ↗

— Angela Carter

#contend #future #here #hopes #hypothesis

As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#deeply #enough #felt #first #first world

I think I was the first to show that a designer could be like a rock star, that people should love your fashion but also put your name together with your fashion. ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

#could #designer #fashion #first #i

Nobody leaves a hotel without getting a full measure of three months of rental assistance. So no one has been evicted - no one who's eligible has been evicted from a hotel without getting a significant amount of money to find - to pay for their rent. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#assistance #been #eligible #find #full

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#animal #animal world #appears #human #human language