#ado

My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. ↗

— Anthony Bourdain

#cat #essentially #fully #house #mean

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#idea #live #shadow #without

I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#adolescence #childhood #could #early #early life

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#colour #less #light #only #relation

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding. ↗

— Harold Evans

#always #complex #more #nuanced #paradox

If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#did #foster #i #impulse #parent

I'm not a party animal; I took my job as Miss USA very seriously... Sometimes, of course, I want to let it all go. Even though I'm a beauty queen, you're also an unofficial ambassador, and there's a lot of pressure. ↗

— Rima Fakih

#ambassador #animal #beauty #course #even

Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life. ↗

— Fernand Braudel

#contradictions #despite #difficulties #everything #framework

The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don't know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise. This is true even when you factor in the greater flexibility and velocity of startups. ↗

— Tim Bray

#better #community #cost #deploy #developers

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#anything #briefing #dreadfully #function #i