Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them as weapons.
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.
This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other.
I have always worried about who can read, who can't, who doesn't, and the great, life-altering consequences hidden within those distinctions.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Simplification of the tax code would not only unlock dormant economic potential, but, in the process, it would blunt the preferred weapon of social engineers, who reward favored industries, punish success and distort economic incentives.
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
Anyone who has been the victim of the social-media furies knows just how distorting and dishonest those furies can be.
Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art.
I'm always distressed by the supposedly bright people who don't know what they are.
The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
Everyone who makes a film is at the major distributors' mercy.
If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
For the jihadists, Muslim women who embrace Western mores, and wear tight jeans or mini skirts, are hated symbols of corruption that need to be eradicated. For the ideological mentors of Breivik, a similar disturbance comes from the burqa, which is banned in France and Belgium, partly thanks to their efforts.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
I just think that the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am.
A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
