#ale

To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything. ↗

— Joseph J. Ellis

#about #alexander #almost #back #basis

I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else's talent. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#else #i #shoulders #someone #talent

Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed. ↗

— Clement Freud

#concealed #delicacy #fat #irrespective #much

Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies. ↗

— Bruce Jay Friedman

#another man #applies #be kind #coaching #coaching staff

It's not our talents that make us safe or dangerous, it's our choices. ↗

— Josephine Angelini

#dreamless #helen #orion #talents #talent

Either you’re one hell of an actress, or you’re the dumbest person to ever walk the face of this planet. ↗

— Kimberly Spencer

#ya-fairy-tale #ya-paranormal #young-adult-urban-fantasy #urban-fantasy

Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#characters #dreams #female #general #i

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#fairy tales #humbug #like #people #simple

Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India's baby girls. Some 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India. ↗

— Elizabeth Vargas

#baby #calls #country #elimination #every

To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

#determined #early #females #fixed #genetically