“All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.” PeopleIfsWorldFirstsStatesDoneFactsLawUnitedRoomsMistakeUnited StatesOur LivesRiskWorstDrugTenLimitsFirst TimeSentencesSpeedHarmCriminalsMilesSmokingPrivacyMaking MistakesSinnerServingMarijuanaOffenseWorst ThingsLiving RoomUnheardFreewaysSpeed LimitsPeople Make Mistakes Book:The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.” MenPersonsWishRoomsWorstHe ManListeningTerribleConversationEncountersListeners Book:all the year round Source: all the year round
“The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.” LongHouseRoomsComedyWorstConversationTablesGet UpMagnificentDiningDining RoomsOld Houses Author:Paul Lynde
“Google is my best friend and my worst enemy. It's fabulous for research, but then it becomes addictive. I'll have a character eating an orange, and next thing I'm Googling types of oranges, I'm visiting chat rooms about oranges, I'm learning the history of the orange.” CharacterNextRoomsEnemyWorstTypeEatingResearchGoogleFabulousOrangeMy Best FriendVisitingWorst Enemy Author:Liane Moriarty
“If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.” IfsShowsRoomsLandWorstTheaterDown AndMusicalSurroundingsRehearsalRehearsingImagining The Worst Author:Hildegard Knef
“Perhaps the two greatest moments of my life were standing on the moon and being outside of the room when my granddaughter was born! We tend not to remember the worst.” TwoMomentsRememberBornRoomsWorstMoonStandingGranddaughterGrand DaughterDaughter And Granddaughter Author:Gene Cernan
“My wife keeps on telling me my worst fault is that I keep things to myself and appear relaxed. But I am really in a room in my own head and not hearing a thing anyone is saying.” My OwnRoomsWifeWorstFaultsHearingMy WifeRelaxed Author:Tom Hanks
“I hire people who can do their jobs and who will advise me of things they don't agree with. The worst thing you can do is get in a room with 14 people who say, "OK!" Then you really are making decisions about engineering and finance and other areas.” PeopleJobsCan DoDecisionRoomsWorstAreasAgreeFinanceEngineeringWorst ThingsAdviseMaking Decisions Author:Roger Ailes
“When I went to the University of Iowa in order to be a writer, I thought, This is the worst way to learn how to write. To sit in a room with a bunch of would-be writers, who want to write the Great American Novel, every one of them, and you read their stories and they read yours, and you're not living a life. I don't like that. I like learning on the job. The character of my work has definitely evolved from the character of my life.” WayWantWritingCharacterStoriesWould BeJobsOrderRoomsNovelWorstUniversityBunchGreat AmericanIowa Author:Joe Frank
“The worst part of directing is always seeing the first assembly. It's devastating. It really is. It's like going into the delivery room and you can't wait to see your baby, and it's a crocodile.” FirstsWaitingRoomsSeeingWorstBabyAssemblyDeliveryCrocodilesDelivery Room Author:David Ayer