#the

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? ↗

— Gilbert Highet

#persuading #politics #promise #public #support

I don't think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that's true. But he's married in later books. I'm not saying he's very strong in the sex department. But he makes it in bed with his wife. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#bed #books #department #gay #good

I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#directors #i #interfere #know #mine

I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#hated #i #into #juries #political

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#elegance #excellent #fondness #had #his

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them. ↗

— Cullen Hightower

#bad #congress #correct #keep #made

A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success. ↗

— Cullen Hightower

#gained #includes #measure #others #success

The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success. ↗

— Cullen Hightower

#gained #includes #measure #others #success

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic. ↗

— Cullen Hightower

#absolutely free #brief #called #experience #free

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#caesar #chavez #created #democracy #down