#times

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with. ↗

— J. Irwin Miller

#characterizes #comfortable #course #cynical #decline

And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#best #different #different sort #fairy #fairy tale

I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#elevated #even #fairy #fairy tales #i

Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire. ↗

— Anil Kapoor

#big hit #everyone #film #goes #hit

That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I'm loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is one of the seminal art works of the twentieth century. ↗

— Mark Morris

#badly #because #been #century #choreographed

Sometimes you forget where the heck you are but when you get on stage, you know by the look on the people's faces and the accent in their voices where you might be. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#faces #forget #get #heck #know

I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#beaten #because #christ #died #i

Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#becoming #cannot #cloak #commitment #continuing

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. ↗

— Hector Hugh Munro

#inaccuracy #little #saves #sometimes #ton

My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the Times. And local papers do too. It has a huge influence. And we'd love to challenge it. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#challenge #cues #elitist #got #huge