#hard

I noticed that there are no B batteries. I think that's to avoid confusion, cause if there were you wouldn't know if someone was stuttering. 'Yes, hello I'd like some b-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries!' and D-batteries that's hard for foreigners. 'Yes, I would like de batteries.' ↗

— Demetri Martin

#batteries #cause #confusion #foreigners #hard

If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#enough #hard #reality #shift #spoon

Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide. ↗

— Karl A. Menninger

#avert #believe #committed #committing #doubt

If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it. ↗

— Liza Minelli

#down #had #hard #hard time #kept

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old. ↗

— Robert Morris

#composers #contemporary #create #daunting #encouraging

We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#clients #find #hard #pushing #quality

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#loneliness #nixon #richard #richard nixon

Hard distinctions make bad philosophy. ↗

— John McCarthy

#distinctions #hard #make #philosophy

People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial institution in the country did not help them widen their economic base. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#economics #hard-work #poverty #poverty