#vent

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#congress #filibuster #invented #know #men

My invention, (the motion picture camera), can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value whatsoever. ↗

— Auguste Lumiere

#camera #commercial #curiosity #exploited #invention

Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#context #create #death #destroy #disappear

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#event #great #inner #summon #those

I love adventure, so I'm excited to be working on something new and making the transition from reality show contestant to host. ↗

— Rob Mariano

#contestant #excited #host #i #i love

I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#avoid #china #confrontation #country #current

Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods. ↗

— Thomas Menino

#announce #boston #committee #convention #fund

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative. ↗

— Charles Edward Merriam

#doing #done #given #imperative #invent

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure. ↗

— Nicholas Meyer

#analogous #bit #collaborative #conductor #director

You see young people, or kids, and they're fascinated by the way people talk. And that's great. But eventually you get to the point where you think, 'You know what? I don't care how you talk, I'm just listening to what you're saying.' ↗

— Chris Morris

#eventually #fascinated #get #great #how