#them

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#business #emotions #express #feelings #find

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. ↗

— James Thurber

#depend #economics #farce #funnier #his

I wasn't sure how my dad would react. There was an agent sitting behind them and he told me he was embarrassed to watch the scenes. My parents have always been very open. They trust my decisions. ↗

— Shannon Elizabeth

#always #been #behind #dad #decisions

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#classic #i #known #song #wanted

It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#big #create #get #go #huge

My feeling with my characters is that they all have a right to feel exactly the way that they do, so I never censor them. I don't judge them. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#characters #exactly #feel #feeling #i

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#become #i #mathematician #physicist #wanted

The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#because #connection #considered #demand #government

Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#after #agreeing #approached #campaigning #ended

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. ↗

— Voltaire

#die #eulogy #lies #literary #literary men