#hem

I didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#find #i #like #looked #them

I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#government #i #imposed #individuals #much

I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#could #expressing #extent #happen #how

Well I was always a hustler... I ran numbers; I wasn't a stick up kid, but I was a fence for them. I used to sell weed; and was kicked out of Music and Art for that. ↗

— Kurtis Blow

#art #fence #hustler #i #kicked

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#consider #evil #generally #inventors #people

I'm actually a very shy person, which is why I always chose to be in the kitchen. You can make people happy and entertain them, without really being there. You can make a very short appearance and then say, 'I've got something on the stove, gotta go!' ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#always #appearance #being #being there #chose

My goal is to make Italian food clean and accessible and beautiful and tasty, with simple ingredients that people can find at a local grocery store, because people don't want to go to a gourmet shop in search of items that will sit in their pantry for years after they use just a teaspoon or pinch of them. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#after #beautiful #because #clean #find

The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#based #christianity #christians #evidence #him

On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#bless #concerned #i #me #offer

I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#christianity #did #encounter #found #happened