#says

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#basis #exactly #exist #lying #only

I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation. ↗

— Robert Baldwin Ross

#attention #conversation #critic #even #i

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#divorce #divorces #four #i #marriage

For every expert that says humans are the cause of "climate change" there are 10 more who say we aren't. ↗

— Bradley A. Blakeman

#change #climate #climate change #every #expert

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard. ↗

— William Jennings Bryant

#conversation #four #heard #his #listener

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that. ↗

— Joan Collins

#class #composition #english #essays #first

I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#art #called #chandler #disciple #essays

The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You're finished. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#finished #having #producer #says #someone

When someone is HIV-positive and his partner says, I want to have sexual relations with you, he doesn't have to do that. But when he does, he has to use a condom. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#does #his #i #partner #relations

There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#listens #says #single #single word #such