#ten

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war. ↗

— King George V

#come #desolation #earth #i #many

The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while. ↗

— Gina Gershon

#answers #critics #forget #own #tend

It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention. ↗

— Brendan Gill

#level #nature #new #new yorker #often

You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants. ↗

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

#between #choose #got #losing #pants

What I learned from doing 'The Graduate' was it doesn't matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

#doing #graduate #i #inspiring #learned

I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#i #i think #men #more #novels

We don't pretend to disagree. ↗

— Gene Siskel

#pretend

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#could #done #example #failure #failures

A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now she had lost the urge. ↗

— Tove Jansson

#forgotten-memories #age

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#artists #mean #mistakes #more #often