#ages

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#buy #courts #expensive #hints #images

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance. ↗

— Richard Branson

#africa #balance #better #big #enjoy

Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages. ↗

— Donna Brazile

#african-american women #american women #been #behind #bush

Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#bit #brings #character #cure #different

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury. ↗

— John Bright

#knowledge #languages #luxury #mainly

Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don't know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#already #everyone #get #go #growing

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him. ↗

— Xun Zi

#animal #believe #boasts #conducts #deception

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images. ↗

— James Broughton

#filled #films #images #like #page

Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader. ↗

— James Buchan

#authors #cutting #disgust #effects #favourite

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission. ↗

— James Buchan

#been #carriages #catastrophic #century #electricity