#which

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#guide #live #living #tool #tragedy

When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those. ↗

— Bill Condon

#comes #direct #earthquakes #fifty #gay

The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics. ↗

— Richard Curtis

#association #authors #canon #ethics #factor

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#aside #cannot #exhaust #experiences #inheritance

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#been #body #centre #god #join

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted. ↗

— John Cusack

#george #great #i #like #movies

To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#connection #goal #hearted #high #just

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense. ↗

— John Cusack

#age #air #also #america #apocalypse

The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#england #household #old #our #petition

We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#government #hope #laying #may #outlast