#tell

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think. ↗

— June Jordan

#find #first #function #how #learn

He's working a lot harder than I am. I tell these people that we really appreciate what they're doing for us. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#appreciate #doing #harder #i #i am

It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#disclosed #does #happen #intellectual #just

I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play. ↗

— Eugene Ormandy

#center #how #i #just #last

Let's go tell everyone we meet that, when the American dream is at stake, you want Barack Obama in charge. ↗

— Deval Patrick

#american dream #barack #barack obama #charge #dream

That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further. ↗

— Alexander Payne

#back #bring #easier #further #go

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing. ↗

— Irene Peter

#excuse #ignorance #real #real thing #thing

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#curiosity #intellectual #intellectual curiosity #keep #life

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#because #critics #end #fiction #i

If I got something to say or do to a man, I'm going to look that man in the eye and tell him what is going to happen. That's just me now. ↗