#elle

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#could #down #fists #help #her

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#broad #development #economist #intellectual #intellectual development

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#excellence #next

Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end. ↗

— Debi Thomas

#end #excellent #in the end #just #just because

I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried. ↗

— Ella R. Bloor

#awful #buried #children #colorado #day

Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity. ↗

— Mary Leakey

#been #compelled #curiosity #i

Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man. ↗

— Vincente Minnelli

#fortunately #john #know #man #many

Love isn't intellectual - it's visceral. ↗

— Kelly McGillis

#love #visceral

There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you. ↗

— Millicent Carey McIntosh

#brings #each #excitement #fruition #greater

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#affairs #awareness #everyday #important #intellectual