#prop

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#english language #imagination #itself #language #nobody

This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#became #been #before #citizen #city

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#big #defeat #hands #help #information

I wish we had a system where you are given a bill including service and that people were paid properly so they didn't have to rely on tips. In different restaurants there are different policies and it's all very confusing. ↗

— Murray Walker

#confusing #different #given #had #i

You have to say what comes into your head, and sometimes the wrong words come, in the wrong order or I'd make prophecies which immediately turned out to be wrong. ↗

— Murray Walker

#comes #head #i #immediately #into

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice. ↗

— Scott Walker

#education #either #false #go #poor

This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated. ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

#even #him #hold #ideas #lay

We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate. ↗

— William Hedgcock Webster

#authority #disciplinary #use #will

We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#fact #give #in fact #individual #individual rights

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#afford #all day #come #day #does