#fit

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#certainly #contents #does #fit #fits

When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people. ↗

— Billy Bob Thornton

#fit #generally #good #good people #i

Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time. ↗

— Jamie Dimon

#benefit #build #business #companies #core

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#fools #only #peace #services #wartime

I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape. ↗

— Andrew Dost

#chords #fit #folds #healthy #how

Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do. ↗

— David Duchovny

#angle #been #come #fear #fit

My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#depending #devotion #fitness #mood #routine

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable. ↗

— Finley Peter Dunne

#lie #most #profitable #purpose #worst

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#i #people #profit #think #war

Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country. ↗