#test

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft. ↗

— Sam Ervin

#20th-century #polygraph #tests #witchcraft

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#between #character #comes #even #imaginations

We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#greatest #humans #parasites

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#ability #first-rate #function #hold #ideas

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#believe #book #characteristic #energy #force

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#greatest #i #invented #know #others

I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable. ↗

— Eugene Forsey

#future #god #greatest #hidden #i

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#both #classed #express #good #letters

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line. ↗

— David Mamet

#beat #fear #greatest #line #me

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets. ↗

— Pete Fountain

#before #clarinet #ear #greatest #i