#bet

The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#cardboard #create #exciting #exists #i

It's not merely that conservatives are better at selling their product, or that they happen to have an easier-and undoubtedly simpler-ideological product to sell. It's that they know what they are selling. Liberals in general and Obama in particular cannot say the same. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#cannot #conservatives #general #happen #know

The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all. ↗

— Al Alvarez

#better #fact #mean #ordinary #play

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#between #closest #closest friends #friends #husband

I think I'm in better shape now than I was 10 years ago, but it takes a bigger toll - I get back pain! ↗

— Alessandra Ambrosio

#back #better #bigger #get #i

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#always #betrayal #espionage #finding #give

A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better. ↗

— Cleveland Amory

#family #good #seems #used

On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#between #breath #choice #dream #first

That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there. ↗

— David Amram

#another #better #books #collaborating #creating

When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol. ↗

— Namie Amuro

#could #gap #huge #i #idol