#ear

You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#anything #best-seller #certain #copies #damn

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#children #disappointment #early #fulfill #parents

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#alzheimer #anyone #better #brain #got

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. ↗

— Colin Powell

#hard #hard work #learning #loyalty #perfection

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery. ↗

— Colin Powell

#about #argued #congress #court #deal

Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind. ↗

— Colin Powell

#ask #because #behind #children #giving

I think we will have a boy baby and he will be born on the 20th of August. Everyone else has a girl baby and at times I don't believe I should mind having a little Phyllis Dawn but Dearest wants a boy and I do. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#baby #believe #born #boy #dawn

In last year's local elections in Manchester a third of those who voted did so by post. It's not just that people are choosing to get postal votes, but having one makes it much more likely that they'll vote. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#did #elections #get #having #just

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#ear #person #weighs #were #you

Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#between #choice #clear #contest #could