#stand

Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#any #consideration #ever #found #hack

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#differently #how #most #noses #others

I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#bigger #hollywood #i #i always #life

I got into stand-up to get on a sitcom. ↗

— David Spade

#got #i #into #sitcom #stand-up

Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored. ↗

— Brian Greene

#science #understanding #science

But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good. ↗

— Bill Walton

#bob #civilization #dylan #good #history

I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors. ↗

— John Hench

#art #artist #communicate #far #fine

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#discovery #knowledge #something #understand

I used to always read my stuff. And I could never understand why artists would say, 'Oh, I can't read my older stuff.' I'd go, 'Are you crazy? I could read my stuff forever!' Now it's a little harder. ↗

— Jaime Hernandez

#artists #could #crazy #forever #go

Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel. ↗

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

#authority #because #commonly #could #dared