#m

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#dash #general #general public #like #look

The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations. ↗

— Henry Villard

#chairs #curious #either #fingers #him

I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on. ↗

— Matthew Vaughn

#going #i #i can #member #minority

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#arrested #arrested development #degree #development #man

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#born #ceased #conceived #dissension #distress

So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today. ↗

— Mika Waltari

#errors #ever #fancying #foolish #future

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#basis #community #conspicuous #consumption #gaining

An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old. ↗

— Carl Van Vechten

#ask #five-year-old #kitten #more #ordinary

There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage. ↗

— Carl Van Vechten

#cat #could #emulate #his #indeed

After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#after #me #more #new #punk