#w

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#know #mouths #never #trouble #whose

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#enough #know #more #people #unthinkingly

I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air. ↗

— Willard Scott

#anybody #get #got #half #history

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#clear #efficient #good #keep #language

I can make things, but I don't cook them, exactly. Like salmon, I can stick that in a pan. Or the other day I made noodles, but they were hard. It never occurred to me to check them; I just stopped cooking them when I felt they were ready. Really, I'm too absentminded. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#cook #cooking #day #exactly #felt

I love talking to the audience, and I must be the luckiest performer in the world. I always land something or somebody that just takes off. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#audience #i #i always #i love #just

We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#dead #fantasy #fiction #hard #i

Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families. ↗

— Colin Powell

#command #earned #families #fun #have fun

If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they'll start to fall down and get depressed. ↗

— Colin Powell

#depressed #down #fall #get #intensity

And in this moment, I realize one reason it's so great to have a best friend is sometimes, like right now, Cal and I are thinking the very same thing. ↗

— Kimberly Willis Holt

#death #friendship #vietnam-war #age