#statement

And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S. ↗

— Michael Moore

#humour #least #make #most #most powerful

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#compromise #englishman #god #idea #know

Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election. ↗

— Barbara Olson

#al #al gore #back #been #carry

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. ↗

— George Orwell

#depth #duty #first #intelligent #men

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. ↗

— George Orwell

#first #intelligent #men #obvious #restatement

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#been #difference #how #just #long

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#bank #check #depends #drawn #general

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#come #consider #created #criticism #excitement

To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story. ↗

— Emily Procter

#car #different #i #i am #organized

But, the truth is and we can argue about whether this is right or not as long as we want to, but the fact is that women really do spend more time with their families. Until I can find a man who can tell me the dates of all of his nieces and nephews birthdays and get presents out to them regularly, I'm going to stay by that statement. ↗

— Cokie Roberts

#argue #birthdays #dates #fact #families