#stan

What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for. ↗

— John Russell

#beautiful #beings #better #come #exactly

Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes. ↗

— Richard Russo

#always #authors #book #changes #faithful

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#dirt #hit #i #mean #stands

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#earth #even #greatly #his #imperfect

And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up. ↗

— Meg Ryan

#down #down the road #five #good #made

Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#everyone #failed #feeling #feels #focus

The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.' ↗

— Paul Ryan

#abraham lincoln #alike #assure #been #commitment

It's sad - it's sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are today. But it's hard to argue with those kinds of grosses. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#better #directors #enough #films #grosses

Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#certain #closer #constitution #country #created

I want England to understand - the rest of the world to understand - what is going on in America. And I want America to understand what is going on in the rest of the world. ↗

— Usher

#england #going #i #rest #understand