#carrie

They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#competition #could #demanded #get #higher

All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it. ↗

— Vera Wang

#body #carried #dancing #design #how

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life. ↗

— Vera Wang

#against #although #always #anyone #better

If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#going #i #literary #london #me

When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#carried #charge #come #covering #electric

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#any #been #carried #dedicated #done

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. ↗

— Herbert Gold

#carried #childhood #held #his #hurt

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. ↗

— Hannah More

#drunk #getting #getting drunk #going #like

And so, it's not a thing of how many carries, but were you effective when you did carry. ↗

— Franco Harris

#carry #did #effective #how #many

I really don't look at comparing things that way because even in a 14-game season, there could be a running back who could have a lot more carries than other running backs. ↗

— Franco Harris

#backs #because #carries #comparing #could