#too

I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in what it does in trying to save our democracy. ↗

— Ed Asner

#democracy #does #i #immeasurably #iraq

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#being #destroyed #ecology #growing #growing up

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#clear #criticism #insult #interpreted #many

I think the average American recognizes that it took years to create the crisis that erupted in 2008 and peaked in January of 2009. And it's going to take some time to work through it. ↗

— David Axelrod

#average #average american #create #crisis #going

What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses. ↗

— David Baker

#book #does #give #give me #grammar

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#framework #lifestyle #order #principle #sound

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#artiste #better #fine #gesture #long

My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life. ↗

— Immanuel Velikovsky

#father #felt #find #his #ideas

It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too. ↗

— Eugene Wigner

#i #know #like #nice #problem

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them. ↗

— Eugene Wigner

#becoming #complex #fact #in fact #long