#chi

If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first. ↗

— Larry Bird

#bank #came #children #deal #due

In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you. ↗

— Jack Vance

#every #fact #get #in fact #job

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. ↗

— Bette Davis

#am #apple #breeds #compulsive #devoured

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#being #collected #date #daughter #dollar

I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be. ↗

— Franz Boas

#intended #kind #may #mind #object

Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#chocolate #cows #cream #ice #ice cream

Britain, however, has ended up specialising in the ones you don't see as much of: defence aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 per cent of the world's mobile phones. And so there's a danger that because it doesn't have a British flag on it, people won't realise that we actually do produce value. ↗

— Evan Davis

#aerospace #because #britain #british #cars

There are genuine concerns about the status of children to be sent to Malaysia and also there are genuine concerns about the human rights record in Malaysia. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#also #children #concerns #genuine #human

Phyllis is one of the tunnel boring machines for Crossrail and one of the most extraordinary characters I met, visiting some of the most exciting infrastructure in Britain. Crossrail is the new railway which will run from West to East right across London. It is the biggest engineering project in Europe - and Phyllis herself is not exactly dainty. ↗

— Evan Davis

#biggest #boring #britain #characters #dainty

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#also #children #educate #educated #left