#wit

I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think - without saying whether I think it or not - I have the right to think, along with the catechism of the Catholic Church, that homosexuality is morally wrong. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#catholic #catholic church #church #homosexuality #homosexuals

You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody's switching to a computer. And I'm sort of laughed at. ↗

— Robert Caro

#drafts #everybody #first #four #go

The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also applies to all territories, whatever their economic or political regime. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#any #applies #beings #characteristic #declaration

Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century. ↗

— David Chalmers

#been #begin #century #consciousness #experimental

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#bands #based #because #been #choose

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings. ↗

— Irvin S. Cobb

#individual #laugh #may #never #own

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#consolation #fun #little #mankind #mind

You can't TV surf without coming across an Andy of Mayberry episode where you've just got to watch Don as Barney. That's why I put Don in several of my movies. ↗

— Tim Conway

#andy #barney #coming #episode #got

It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away. ↗

— Jim Cooper

#business #buy #families #home #just

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it. ↗

— Robert Coover

#day #imagine #impulse #narrative #ourselves