#era

They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses. ↗

— Joe E. Lewis

#bladder #day #decided #everything #examined

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes. ↗

— Abbey Lincoln

#brushes #couch #i #lay #paint

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#alone #capacity #employee #employer #his

There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#co-operative #each #employer #fellow #his

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#along #been #bunch #consensus #ever

The main part of the Hyde bill is to withhold U.S. contributions to the regular assessed budget of the U.N. unless they make real and substantial reforms in the way they operate. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#bill #budget #contributions #hyde #main

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#every #generates #get #going #novel

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#between #creation #literary #political #political activity

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#before #job #liberated #liberated woman #marriage

Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great. ↗

— Gary Locke

#added #american #american values #american way #attention