#ten

Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline. ↗

— Tony Blair

#conflict #dominate #headline #manage #number

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#like #memory #nails #our #sentences

Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream. ↗

— Joan Didion

#always #around #bad #dream #else

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream. ↗

— Joan Didion

#dream #into #listening #reader #their

My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. ↗

— Joan Didion

#am #best #best interests #counter #forget

Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice. ↗

— Tony Blair

#feel #got #great #i #i feel

The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals. ↗

— Edward Blake

#classes #commercial #crimes #criminals #developed

Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#most #reputations #ruined

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody. ↗

— Eubie Blake

#birds #grateful #hate #listen #luck

I have periods where I listen to regular rap, Jay-Z, Eminem and Lil Wayne. The next day I might have some Christian alternative music. The next day I have on some dance music. It all varies what I listen to. ↗

— Steve Blake

#christian #dance #dance music #day #eminem