#dr

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing. ↗

— Elizabeth Bishop

#cars #contrived #dangerous #dangerous thing #dreams

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#bartender #book #critic #drunk #good

Britain, however, has ended up specialising in the ones you don't see as much of: defence aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 per cent of the world's mobile phones. And so there's a danger that because it doesn't have a British flag on it, people won't realise that we actually do produce value. ↗

— Evan Davis

#aerospace #because #britain #british #cars

Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one's brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is. ↗

— Evan Davis

#asleep #awake #body #brain #called

There are genuine concerns about the status of children to be sent to Malaysia and also there are genuine concerns about the human rights record in Malaysia. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#also #children #concerns #genuine #human

I played this character twice in live action, and now I've become an animated character. It was actually fun to see myself drawn - I've never been a drawn character before. ↗

— Geena Davis

#actually #animated #become #been #before

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#also #children #educate #educated #left

In addition to joblessness, of course, by the working of supply and demand, when you have a larger number of people unemployed, wages do not rise at the normal level, so that we had last year a drop in real wages. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#course #demand #drop #had #joblessness

Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing. ↗

— Hope Davis

#barbecue #beaches #car #city #coasts

I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second. ↗

— Hope Davis

#away #children #could #deeply #husband