#wit

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. ↗

— Wilbur Wright

#fly #knowledge #motors #possible #skill

Anyone who would let Gary Cooper and the entire cast go charging on horseback without first finding out what kind of footing the horses had is nuts and cannot possibly direct a motion picture. ↗

— Dick York

#cannot #cast #charging #cooper #direct

One may live without bread, not without roses. ↗

— Jean Richepin

#live #may #roses #without

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#arrive #critical #cynical #either #heritage

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life. ↗

— Brooks Robinson

#games #his #i #leave #life

We must have an America in which White men and women can live and work, in their homes and in the streets of our cities, without fear. ↗

— George Lincoln Rockwell

#cities #fear #homes #live #men

My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#enough #fast #game #help #my own

All of the devices work out of the box without any subscription fee. ↗

— David Rose

#box #devices #fee #out #subscription

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world. ↗

— Francis Schaeffer

#orthodoxy #surely #thing #ugliest #without

F. Scott Fitzgerald believed inserting exclamation points was the literary equivalent of an author laughing at his own jokes, but that's not the case in the modern age; now, the exclamation point signifies creative confusion. All it illustrates is that even the writer can't tell if what they're creating is supposed to be meaningful, frivolous, or cruel. It's an attempt to insert humor where none exists, on the off chance that a potential reader will only be pleased if they suspect they're being entertained. Of course, the reader isn't really sure, either. They just want to know when they're supposed to pretend to be amused. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#internet #online-writing #social-networking #twitter #age