#ford

And just so you know for the future, I like my double-chocolate chip cookies warm and soft in the middle...and without magnets glued to them." "Me, too. When you decide to bake me some, let me know. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#alex #brittany #carlos #carlos-fuentes #fuentes

The city was different back then--poor and crumbling--kept alive only by the gritty determination and steely cynicism of its occupants. But underneath the dirt was the apple-cheeked optimism of possibility, and while she worked, the whole city seemed to throb along with her. ↗

— Candace Bushnell

#determination #new-york-city #possibility #victory-ford #new-york-city

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life. ↗

— Todd Akin

#any #attempt #civil #civil government #family

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others. ↗

— Clay Aiken

#career #detour #difference #done #education

None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

#aged #already #delay #enter #entreat

There still is a war on women in terms of politicians in Washington and the state legislatures trying to eliminate any rights we have fought to win and that the Supreme Court has afforded us. ↗

— Gloria Allred

#any #court #eliminate #fought #legislatures

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#circles #clifford #considered #ever #greatest

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age. ↗

— Dorothy Dix

#age #cannot #dependence #indulging #old

Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can't afford to buy weather. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#buy #films #i #make #such

One of our most difficult realizations was that - in the course of two years - a connecting hub in St. Louis had gone from something we thought we needed to something we could no longer afford. ↗

— Gerard Arpey

#connecting #could #course #difficult #gone