#tell

The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#attack #intimidate #into #leading #make

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#answers #being #creates #intellectual #lot

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

I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#every #fundamental #fundamental right #i #i believe

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#imagination #intelligence #love is #over #triumph

I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#big #canvas #challenge #could #deliberately

You can tell a lot from someone's eyes. ↗

— Lorne Michaels

#lot #someone #tell #you

I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#had #i #intellectual #interest #naturally