#contract

The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#contractors #draw #failing #filthy #habitually

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#attitude #becomes #contracted #everyone #eye

For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#combat #comparison #contractors #else #individuals

If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good. ↗

— Chris Evans

#car #contract #fortunate #goal #gold

After one year in the Texas League, the American League bought the rights to my contract. They optioned me back to the Texas League for the 1970 season. ↗

— Jim Evans

#american #american league #back #bought #contract

I want a new contract. I'm happy at United and I see my future here. ↗

— Rio Ferdinand

#future #happy #here #i #i see

People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph. ↗

— Walt Disney

#cartoonist #check #contract #days #i

The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract. ↗

— Peter Hall

#france #new #want #youth

Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology. ↗

— Serge Haroche

#atomic #clock #come #computer #contraction

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#contract #did #government #i #make