#dre

On my wedding day. I didn't want a natural, blushing-bride look - I had a full-on hairdo and red lips. I thought it would be disingenuous to do the whole virginal look, so even though I had the white dress, I had pink net underneath. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#disingenuous #dress #even #full-on #had

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science. ↗

— Bruno Bettelheim

#children #creative #endeavor #raising #raising children

Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players. ↗

— Gary Bettman

#baseball #crafted #economics #exceptions #game

I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire. There may be some tears because this is a dream of mine. ↗

— Nik Wallenda

#dream #i #may #mine #often

I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#realism #experience

No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#age #amend #amendment #any #ban

The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#how #i #kindred #meet #more

What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt. ↗

— John Spratt

#america #children #colleagues #debt #doing

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself. ↗

— David Walliams

#books #children #demanding #i #just

Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire...They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors. They don't know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#greatness #mediocrity #dreams