#our

I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue. ↗

— David Simon

#emphasize #how #i #journalism #lying

I get tired of negativity in our country. I get tired of people who only want to know dirt. I get tired of people who don't believe in themselves. ↗

— Richard Simmons

#country #dirt #get #i #know

Does Playboy still run fiction?” “I have absolutely no idea, Melinda,” he said, grinning. ↗

— Robyn Carr

#funny #humour #romance #funny

Must be frustrating being a scientist. There you are, incrementally discovering how the universe works via a series of complex tests and experiments, for the benefit of all mankind - and what thanks do you get? People call you "egghead" or "boffin" or "heretic", and they cave your face in with a rock and bury you out in the wilderness. Not literally - not in this day and age - but you get the idea. Scientists are mistrusted by huge swathes of the general public, who see them as emotionless lab-coated meddlers-with-nature rather than, say, fellow human beings who've actually bothered getting off their arses to work this shit out. ↗

— Charlie Brooker

#science #age

In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again. ↗

— Joe Simon

#again #away #book #comic #comic book

Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood. ↗

— William Allen White

#god #got #heart #justice #kills

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top. ↗

— O. J. Simpson

#complete #day #excuses #making #responsibility

We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys. ↗

— Paul Simon

#always #aside #blend #different #gift

Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth. ↗

— William E. Simon

#consideration #economic #first #growth #innovation

Intercourse is one thing, Intimacy is everything. Be encouraged ↗

— Kerry E. Wagner

#authors #best-quote-ever #book-clubs #books #bookstores