#able

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#any #before #cigar #easy #empty

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the next making them feel really uncomfortable. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#been #between #comedy #discomfort #drawn

President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government. ↗

— Jim Cooper

#achieve #budget #clinton #despite #divided

Following the devastating India Ocean tsunami of 2004, I founded Chefs for Humanity, modeled after Doctors Without Borders, but comprised of chefs. There wasn't anything out there like it, and there was a definite need for chefs to be able to offer assistance and aid. ↗

— Cat Cora

#after #aid #anything #assistance #borders

It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#case #close #closer #deal #did

I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#myself #position #put #vulnerable #where

Well, T Bone's had a remarkable career as a producer since the time that we first worked together. He was dividing his time between recording and producing when we first met, and touring. We toured together and we were great friends. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#bone #career #dividing #first #friends

And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#although #experience #fascinating #generations #human

Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets. ↗

— Francis Crick

#bases #been #changes #composition #data

Obviously, the most memorable has a lot to do with the time spent on the matter, and the Westerfield and Peterson cases are up at the top of the list. ↗

— Catherine Crier

#list #lot #matter #memorable #most