#kel

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot. ↗

— John McCarthy

#being #book #convinced #intellectual #likely

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time! ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#christmas time #dime #how #nickel #petitions

Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#being #better #decisions #fun #glamorous

Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#least #likely #make #most #proud

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#childhood #experience #i #inhibited #knew

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built. ↗

— Nicholas Meyer

#building #built #finished #finished product #likely

If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside. ↗

— Adam Michnik

#deaf #likely #more #much #outside

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks. ↗

— Henry Miller

#always #dies #gets #over #skeleton

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#closet #makes #restless #skeleton #something

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil. ↗

— James Monroe

#evil #form #government #greatest #likely