#crystal

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#absolutely #activities #alternative #candle #clear

Wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don’t know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering on. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#crystal-hubbard #game-set-match-champion #life

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#blessings #crystal #desert #die #gospel

Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town. ↗

— Steve Martin

#crystal #get #hosting #i #like

When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#beating #billy #bite #comedy #crystal

In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#after #almost #better #broken #crystal

Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it. ↗

— Loretta Young

#career #course #crystallized #determination #resume

We're taking up some science experiments, some crystal growth things, we have a refrigerator that carries up some samples, new samples that go into the station, we bring the old ones home; we have a lot of clothing, we have a lot of food-U.S. and Russian food. ↗

— Linda M. Godwin

#carries #clothing #crystal #experiments #food

But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques. ↗

— Jim Henson

#alive #creatures #crystal #dark #go

We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition. ↗

— Patricia Hewitt

#back #clear #crystal #just #labour