#thor

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#i #man #me #satisfied #show

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#cases #characteristic #commercial #composers #down

Our very existence refuses your laws and your science, your religions and your philosophies. ↗

— B.E. Scully

#horror-authors #vampire #religion

These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#code #could #distribution #etc #fascism

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. ↗

— Brendan Francis

#authority #book #hands #infantryman #like

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority. ↗

— Marie de France

#authority #dead #divers #down #fashions

What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque. ↗

— Brendan Francis

#back #cheque #his #likes #most

I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children. ↗

— Barney Frank

#authority #between #children #consensual #deep

You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

#fair #not fair #only #people #petals

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#among #any #circumstances #conversations #easy