#thou

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#funny #little #pieces #portable #thought

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. ↗

— Socrates

#deliver #enabled #find #i #inspiration

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased. ↗

— Hans Frank

#germany #guilt #pass #thousand #will

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#far #found #funny #haven #i

Henry is entirely invented though by now I feel he's as real as anyone I know. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#entirely #feel #henry #i #i feel

To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#appears #ascent #been #dominion #extent

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#certain #certain things #confident #content #directions

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces. ↗

— Solon

#learning #people #rich #rich people #sheep

I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don't know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I'm a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#acting #actor #always #bad #because

George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation. ↗

— Tony Snow

#broke #bush #even #four #george