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Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ‘em. You’re not gonna change any of them by talkin’ right, they’ve got to want to learn themselves, and when they don’t want to learn there’s nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.
harper lee— Pt. 2, ch. 12
— Calpurnia
Today millions of people are living who will never do it again. Millions are being born for the first time–and millions are doing nothing because it’s the best offer they’ve had this week. … It is for these people and many others that the Surprise Party is conceived and desecrated, founded upon the principle that everybody is just as good as anybody else, even though they aren’t quite so smart.
gracie allen— Ch. 5 : Issues and how to pick them
He is the last of that old guard defending Cattle Land,Those knights who jousted for the cause — blood brothers of the brand;But now they’ve fenced the water-hole, they’re harrowing the plain,They’re changing all the sagebrush flats to fields of waving grain;The cowmen will be gone, they say, and there are no recruits —Good-bye, brave cattle-puncher in the high-heeled boots!
Arthur Chapman— The High-Heeled Boots, st. 3
In the years that some of my colleagues have served — 20, 30 years — they’ve never seen it like this.
gabrielle giffords— Discussing being "targeted" by Sarah Palin, in March 2010 interview with MSNBC — Jonathan Alter (January 10, 2011). "Can Obama Turn Tragedy Into Triumph?". Newsweek (Harman Newsweek LLC). Retrieved on 2011-01-10.
We grabbed their hands and dragged them home. Ah, I hope they’ve forgiven me.
lionel jeffries— On dragging his child stars out of a pub while directing The Railway Children; Times obituary 19 February 2010
In many if not most cases, Cuban players haven’t been busts so much as they’ve been systematically over-hyped during the signing process, which led to unrealistic expectations around Major League Baseball and in the media. The vast majority of Cuba’s truly elite players have either stayed in Cuba for their entire careers or left Cuba too late to have a meaningful MLB career.
joe kehoskie— On the success rate and perception of Cuban baseball defectors in MLB, from the Miami Herald article "Yoenis Cespedes may be the great unknown for Miami Marlins" by Clark Spencer (12 February 2012)
All you have to do is anesthetize the masses by telling them they’re an elite, that they’ve got a mission, that they’re making history, that they’re fulfilling their destiny and fighting for a better world — and they swallow it like lambs — even when a guttersnipe says it.
— The Night of the Generals (1962)
The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they’ve been at other times.
angus wilson— Malcolm Cowley (ed.) Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, First Series (New York: Viking Press, [1958] 1959) p. 261.
The world’s been waiting, they’ve been waiting for years And they’ve just gotta hear it The kids are waiting, they’ve been shedding tears So open your arms and sing for us
zooey deschanel— "Sing" (Volume Two (2010))
All Nine often used to come to me, I mean the Muses: But I ignored them: my girl was in my arms. Now I’ve left my sweetheart: and they’ve left me, And I roll my eyes, seeking a knife or rope. But Heaven is full of gods: You came to aid me: Greetings, Boredom, mother of the Muse.
— Epigram 27 (Venetian Epigrams (1790))
...and Newt [Gingrich] although somebody said "he’s a stupid man’s idea of what a smart person sounds like," but he is more plausible than the other guys that they’ve been pushing up.
paul krugman— This Week with Christiane Amanpour, November 20, 2011
A ley line is what might be called a field of force, a trail of telluric energy. There are hundreds of them, perhaps thousands, all over Britain, and they’ve been around since the Stone Age.
stephen r. lawhead— p. 20 (The Skin Map (2010))
People like to define you through what they’ve seen you do … There are aspects of my personality, I guess, that come through on-screen, but I don’t sit around thinking, I’ve been a bumbling suitor all my life.
ben stiller— As quoted in "Born Funny" by Margot Dougherty Reader's Digest (September 2007)
And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain – and Britain and Socialism are not the same thing. (...) It’s the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people’s money.
margaret thatcher— In a speech to the Conservative Party Conference (10 October, 1975) [1]
Dear God I've heard your name from teachers , family and friends, you made the universe and so will live on when it ends. Everyone I know admits they’ve never seen your face , they’re not sure where you live and have no map to the place.
dawud wharnsby— "Dear God"
“What’s going on?” I whispered to Gina. “Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don’t have enough to do,” she murmured back. “So they’ve invented a new acronym.”
connie willis— Chapter 1 “Beginning”, Section 4 (p. 33)
Dear God I've heard your name from teachers , family and friends, you made the universe and so will live on when it ends . Everyone I know admits they’ve never seen your face , they’re not sure where you live and have no map to the place.
— Dawud Wharnsby, in "Dear God", in A Picnic of Poems in Allah's Green Garden (2011)
They’ve offered me every variation on Audrey Horne, none of which were as good or as much fun.
sherilyn fenn— Sherilyn Fenn, quoted in "Fenn de Siècle", by Joshua Mooney. Movieline (USA). July 1993. p.36-40, 80-82.
— on being typecast after starring as Audrey Horne in Twin Peaks.
They’ve heard about space but they still don’t believe in it. They haven’t been out here to see for themselves that there isn’t any giant elephant under the earth, holding it up, and a giant tortoise holding up the elephant. If I say “planet” and “spaceship” to them, they still think “horoscope” and “flying saucer”.
fritz leiber— Chapter 6 (p. 37)
But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
Anthony Trollope— Ch. 38 (Phineas Redux (1874))
They’ve [entrepreneurs] often sacrificed their personal life and end up burn outs or with a business that doesn’t scale.
— Christine Comaford-Lynch, American businesswoman, venture capitalist. Interview in Director Magazine, September 2007
