#del

There are only two guidelines in good sex, don't do anything you don't really enjoy and find out what are your partner needs and don't balk them if you can help it. ↗

— Alex Comfort

#balk #enjoy #find #good #guidelines

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#felt #fiction #general #i #influence

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#bad news #being #close #delivering #fail

Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#behind #chance #change #current #deliver

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#away #fade #guidelines #infancy #intelligence

And to this day, my Mom is my role model. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#model #mom #role #role model

It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry. ↗

— Sonia Rykiel

#models #out #runway #send #useless

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too. ↗

— George Saunders

#fiction #kind #model #ought #out

But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain. ↗

— Sally Schneider

#being #complain #delicious #delicious food #food

We need role models who are going to break the mold. ↗

— Carly Simon

#going #models #mold #need #role