#vent

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#american troops #conventional #conventional wisdom #getting #holds

When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#camp #could #counsellor #eight #far

The poet doesn't invent. He listens. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#invent #listens #poet

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares? ↗

— Joel Coen

#amount #amusing #because #behave #cares

Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art. ↗

— Mike Shinoda

#apple #art #better #computers #create

I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#events #i #life #life is too short #past

We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new. ↗

— George Combe

#agent #alter #aspects #cases #evidence

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. ↗

— Alex Comfort

#come #eventually #malnutrition #may #more

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#environmental #incurable #only #pollution #prevented

It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged. ↗

— Bill Condon

#event #live #more #more and more #nature