#depart

Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#commenting #department #despite #each #hired

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting. ↗

— James Buchan

#accounts #before #brown #came #cash

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#being #circumstances #civil #civil society #departure

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear. ↗

— Julia Child

#come #department #department stores #equipment #indiscriminately

I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools. ↗

— Sally Field

#departments #drama #enough #grow #grow up

It's not a party until the fire department shows up. ↗

— Thom Filicia

#fire #party #shows #until #up

Nobody now is going from department to another department. Only Walt did that. I was very fond of him, really. ↗

— John Hench

#department #did #fond #going #him

The beautiful thing about my intelligence is that it doesn't really come in one specific department. So even if something hasn't happened to me, I have information on how to get you through whatever you may be going through. ↗

— Tyrese Gibson

#beautiful #beautiful thing #come #department #even

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#also #autism #bad #brain #cables

It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change! ↗

— Thom Gunn

#by the time #certain #change #closet #department