#ture

The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil? ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#fund #idea #machine #manufacture #ownership

I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#experiences #find #great #great literature #i

Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#day #every #every day #freedom #future

A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#best #future #good-will #goods #organization

I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture. ↗

— Ty Pennington

#furniture #i #kid #legs #removing

In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if either one of them is the right approach to nature. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#book #either #here #i #know

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future. ↗

— Gary Ross

#change #complexity #contradiction #each #else

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#how #literature #me #mentor #personal

A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#aids #because #community #culture #either

Even if you're not Christian, just from being in our culture you know Jesus and resurrection and redemption. ↗

— Trey Parker

#christian #culture #even #jesus #just