#extra

Interest rate cuts have an effect in stimulating an economy by directly or indirectly making someone, somewhere, spend more than they otherwise would. That extra spending increases demand and ensures that we all carry on with work to do, without us having to slash our prices or our wrists. ↗

— Evan Davis

#cuts #demand #directly #economy #effect

Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify. ↗

— Evan Davis

#consumption #element #enters #expensive #extra

Phyllis is one of the tunnel boring machines for Crossrail and one of the most extraordinary characters I met, visiting some of the most exciting infrastructure in Britain. Crossrail is the new railway which will run from West to East right across London. It is the biggest engineering project in Europe - and Phyllis herself is not exactly dainty. ↗

— Evan Davis

#biggest #boring #britain #characters #dainty

My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother. ↗

— Laura Dern

#bank #bank account #day #extra #first

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results. ↗

— Wade Boggs

#catalyst #causes #chain #events #extraordinary

He finds it extraordinary that on some mornings, just after he has woken up, as he bends down to tie his shoes, he is flooded with a happiness so intense, a happiness so naturally and harmoniously at one with the world, that he can feel himself alive in the present, a present that surrounds him and permeates him, that breaks through him with the sudden, overwhelming knowledge that he is alive. And the happiness he discovers in himself at that moment is extraordinary. ↗

— Paul Auster

#extraordinary #happiness #nature

There has got to be a lot of unreleased video out there, live footage and whatnot. There's always going to be something extra for the Pantera fan. ↗

— Phil Anselmo

#extra #fan #footage #going #got

Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#evidence #extraordinary #require

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary. ↗

— David Bailey

#before #everything #extraordinary #good #imagination

Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#anything #except #extraordinary #just #man