#isi

Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table. ↗

— Ina Garten

#arrangement #bunch #does #down #florist

I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

#chairman #control #control freak #decisions #freak

I'm just taking care of myself: Eating less, exercising more, drinking a lot of coconut water. ↗

— Jennie Garth

#coconut #drinking #eating #exercising #i

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. ↗

— Bill Gates

#coffee #go #jobs #leave #life

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software. ↗

— Bill Gates

#during #first #great #had #here

People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#ascribe #back #brilliant #calculating #circumstances

What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#about #become #been #believe #black

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#harmonize #heard #i #mine #taken

I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#had #i #might #saving #television

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#beauty #care #choice #detail #execution