#tell

They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda. ↗

— John Boehner

#called #choice #freedom #iraqi #operation

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#intellectual #knows #man #more #necessary

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#compose #decent #differences #how #intellect

I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move. ↗

— Olafur Eliasson

#certain #come #how #i #iceland

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise. ↗

— George Eliot

#him #make #man #mostly #sure

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie. ↗

— Louise Bogan

#bourgeoisie #class #exist #fine #flower

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go. ↗

— Humphrey Bogart

#big shot #go #making #making money #money

You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy. ↗

— Peter Bogdanovich

#commercials #cut #easy #film #grammar

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#gets #into #least #playwriting #producers

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#abuse #choice #good #had #sexually