#highlight

I write down the three measurements which Lou and I agreed are central to knowing if the company is making money: net profit, ROI and cash flow. ↗

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

#money

were under the very erroneous impression that we had money. Of ↗

— Lee Child

#money

The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course. ↗

— Tara Lipinski

#course #highlight #olympics

It's hard being away from home. But other than that, performing is the highlight of my day. ↗

— Martina McBride

#being #day #hard #highlight #home

His face and arms are so artfully disguised as to be invisible. I kneel beside him. “I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.” Peeta smiles. “Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#art

The Silent Service is all together too silent. It's important to begin to highlight the critical importance of the Silent Service to our national security. ↗

— Rob Simmons

#critical #highlight #importance #important #national

Less than a decade after the Great Exhibition, iron as a structural material was finished—which makes it slightly odd that the most iconic structure of the entire century, about to rise over Paris, was made of that doomed material. I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#age

I never changed after that. I sought for nothing in the one great source of change which is humanity. And even in my love and absorption with the beauty of the world, I sought to learn nothing that could be given back to humanity. I drank of the beauty of the world as a vampire drinks. I was satisfied. I was filled to the brim. But I was dead. And I was changeless. ↗

— Anne Rice

#beauty

Yes, I am of old family, and not illiterate. I am a fossil."   "A which?"   "Fossil. The first horses were fossils. They date back two million years. ↗

— Mark Twain

#dating

They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man’s laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death,” Ned said evenly. “Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#death