#double

Toy companies aren't interested in ideology, they want to sell toys. If they would sell a toy that both boys and girls would buy, it doubles profits. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#boys and girls #buy #companies #doubles #ideology

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes. ↗

— Rachel Griffiths

#bunch #catch #double #genre #i

I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard. ↗

— Vera Miles

#double #i #i love #lots #love

No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once. ↗

— William Petty

#man #nothing #once #pays #same

We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#away #back #character #double #either

If you lived the doubles, as I did, which was very stressful, you are sitting down in a chair experiencing a match without being able to hold a racquet in your hands. ↗

— Guy Forget

#being #chair #did #doubles #down

Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents. ↗

— Hodding Carter

#classified #classify #decisions #documents #doubled

When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed centerfold, always receding before him, keeps the man destabilized in pursuit, unable to focus on the beauty of the woman--known, marked, lined, familiar—-who hands him the paper every morning. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#aging #beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics

Though we were curfew-free- I'd told Mom I was spending the night at Mel's after our double date, and Mel had told Mrs. Warren that she'd be home "whenever my happy ass walks through the door"- I was nervous about tonight. ↗

— Kresley Cole

#evie #happy-ass #mel #dating

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing. ↗

— Ronnie Barker

#double #double meaning #joke #marvelous #marvelous thing