#sat

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#company #conversation #decide #development #good

Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days. ↗

— John Pilger

#days #his #like #litmus #litmus test

All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92) ↗

— Norma Fox Mazer

#pigs #stupidity #intelligence

Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#childhood #full #i #i was born #indiana

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory. ↗

— Emily Post

#believe #conversation #eloquent #exchange #exhibition

My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#fat #head #i #improvisational #skeleton

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story. ↗

— Annie Proulx

#brevity #find #i #intellectually #intensity

Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#life

I know a lie when I hear one. ↗

— Adrian Mitchell

#lie #life #quote #sarcasm #satire

Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact. ↗

— John Rawls

#citizens #criterion #enact #ideally #legislators