#thing

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#about #angry #does #indicate #make

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#different #different things #getting #giving #information

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#argument #being #escape #face #gracefully

When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#feelings #first #just #like #our

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#important #important things #improved #most #steamships

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#day-to-day #had #happening #ireland #level

The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them. ↗

— George Harrison

#newspapers #nicest #open #them #thing

America has everything, why should they want us. ↗

— George Harrison

#everything #should #us #want #why

I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

#give #i #i do #immediately #like

I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

#artist #because #being #changed #follow