#who

An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party. ↗

— Ice T

#control #crowd #master #only #party

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#am #especially #everyone #experiences #good

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing? ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#another #ceiling #could #cross #down

Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#culture #fact #i #i think #in fact

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#books #engaged #losers #lost #people

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee. ↗

— Tacitus

#assured #best #done #evil #friends

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#been #blessed #everyone #forbidden #general

General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan. ↗

— Jim Talent

#act #afghanistan #allies #circle #commander

I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world. ↗

— Taliesin

#his #i #lord #over #praise

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#commonplace #ideal #people #present #quite