#sm

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#being #insult #like #old #old age

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#behavior #civilized #consider #contradicts #desirable

I'm my own salesman. I can't let anybody do anything for me. ↗

— Fred Durst

#anything #i #me #my own #own

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#long #people #persecute #terrorism #throw

It's an embarrassment of riches because you have directors who don't better. You end up with so much stuff going on the screen that you don't know where to look, and that's what I consider self-indulgent. ↗

— John Dykstra

#better #consider #directors #embarrassment #end

I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#big #biotechnology #bright #bright future #centralized

It's almost ingrained in people that, just like you can't be a smart model, you can't be a good-looking cook. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#cook #good-looking #ingrained #just #like

My own view of this, by the way, is, if the war on terrorism is successful over time, in its own way it's going to box Saddam in in a way that's going to make it much more difficult for him to maintain his power, and that he's going to become increasingly isolated. I think that's going to take time. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#box #difficult #going #him #his

We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows. ↗

— David Eagleman

#any #cosmos #happening #knows #most

One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#because #been #complete #embarrassment #everybody