#ants

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. ↗

— George Eliot

#govern #half #her #man #must

People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#lecture #listen #people #scolded #talked

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#demands #destinations #disease #existed #his

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#choice #consultants #forward #industry #itself

There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug - not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#camera #even #experience #get #go

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#been #marketing #over #people #studios

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid. ↗

— David Fincher

#around #been #deals #everybody #financed

I write about things that are important for us as Americans. I'm concerned about al-Qaeda sneaking across the border with the illegal immigrants that are using the coyotes to get across the border. And that's not a Democrat or Republican issue, that's a national security issue. ↗

— Brad Thor

#across #al-qaeda #border #concerned #democrat

Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition. ↗

— Charles Vest

#amount #award #best #cannot #changes

The thing that really surprised me about strip malls in California, specifically Los Angeles, is that they have some really fantastic restaurants. ↗

— Dave Foley

#angeles #california #fantastic #los #los angeles