#under

I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#behind #being #bewildered #could #fence

Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#beat #bed #broadcast #business #competition

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature. ↗

— Rita Dove

#adversity #almost #begin #being #convey

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me. ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#better #big #big guys #guys #i

In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#after #breakthrough #important #leads #like

I've been around golf my whole life. My father did it all the time, and I resented him for it. But a couple years ago I picked up a golf club and I understood the physics of it. If anyone knows anything about golf, it's that once you hit a few shots, you'll become addicted. ↗

— Fred Durst

#addicted #ago #anyone #anything #around

Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him. But as long as they can knock you back down, it seems like if you're an underdog again, and things do surface, and they think this is real, 'these guys' intentions are genuine and sincere,' it seems like they will embrace you again. ↗

— Fred Durst

#back #down #embrace #everybody #genuine

The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn't. They want to shut other people up. They really don't understand the First Amendment. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#amendment #dominates #energy #first #first amendment

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#book #changed #could #diaper #every

The road to success is always under construction. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#construction #road #success #success is #under