#ect

I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people. ↗

— Marat Safin

#difficult #expectation #i #i think #much

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject. ↗

— William Safire

#comes #dealing #intellectual #primary #shape

Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day. ↗

— William Safire

#any #aside #cast #column #day

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there. ↗

— William Safire

#directed #down #even #halfway #happened

The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American culture by 'The Wizard of Oz.' ↗

— William Safire

#american #american culture #compound #culture #device

You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#days #directing #done #episodic #get

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#harmony #human #perfect #perfect harmony #required

Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored. ↗

— Bob Saget

#allen #bored #comedy #dissect #doing

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#direction #does #each #gazing #looking

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#achieved #add #away #designer #knows