#sit

I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#any #believe #business #every #exactly

Television itself is an intimate medium. It's in your house. You're visiting with these people... Not everybody's going to like it, just like not everybody likes everybody on the playground. I mean, that's life - especially if your job is to just go out there and be yourself. ↗

— Rachael Ray

#especially #everybody #go #going #house

When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#century #familiar #first-hand #i #i write

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. ↗

— Sam Rayburn

#circumstances #extraordinary #extraordinary circumstances #good #good action

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way. ↗

— Stephen Rea

#ambiguity #appalling #book #boy #butcher

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing. ↗

— Herbert Read

#bitter #blowing #knows #sensitive #wind

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair. ↗

— Herbert Read

#belief #characteristic #despair #political #positive

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. ↗

— William Winwood Reade

#brute #curiosity #examining #food #habit

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#crocodile #eat #feeding #go #hoping

I was born not too far from Minneapolis, so it's nice to come back and visit. ↗

— Marion Ross

#born #come #far #i #i was born