#ah

If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of donor interest in countries that are seen as particularly fragile - but it becomes harder to mobilise money for sub-Saharan, plain poor countries. ↗

— Helen Clark

#been #concentration #countries #create #currently

A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

#audience #back #buy #dialogue #halts

The difference was principally in the invisible places toward which their respective hearts were turned. They dreamed of Cairo with its autonomous government, its army, its newspapers and its cinema, while he, facing in the same direction, dreamed just a little beyond Cairo, across the Bhar El Hamar to Mecca. They thought in terms of grievances, censorship, petitions and reforms; he, like any good Moslem who knows only the tenets of his religion, in terms of destiny and divine justice. If the word 'independence' was uttered, they saw platoons of Moslem soldiers marching through streets were all the signs were written in Arabic script, they saw factories and power plants rising from the fields; he saw skies of flame, the wings of avenging angels, and total destruction. ↗

— Paul Bowles

#makkah #dreams

Going to Omaha for the College World Series - the people there are tremendous - huge crowds and a lot of excitement. I still remember those days - you make a lot of friends that you never forget when you win a championship like that. ↗

— Roger Clemens

#college #crowds #days #excitement #forget

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#appears #behind #only #time #work

You have to visualize a second or two ahead of your car what line you are taking, what you are going to do, before you get there because it comes too fast. ↗

— Emerson Fittipaldi

#because #before #car #comes #fast

Yeah, about sixteen to twenty weeks a year. For example, we can do America in six or seven weeks. You can do Europe in three weeks; England in two weeks. South America you could do in three weeks; Asia you could do in three weeks. ↗

— Warren Cuccurullo

#america #asia #could #england #europe

The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time with my baby. Oh yeah, I bet your other family is really thrilled. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#baby #bet #family #going #grown

Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead! ↗

— Fannie Flagg

#back #behind #means #only #people

First of all, Vince McMahon doesn't argue - he tells you! ↗

— Ric Flair

#first #first of all #mcmahon #tells #vince