#ld

Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered. ↗

— David Sedaris

#award #bothered #could #i #i wish

They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity. ↗

— David Sedaris

#electricity #fields #french #french people #generous

He who has great power should use it lightly. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#great power #lightly #power #should #use

Whether it be in a small movie or a big movie, I would always be attracted to this role. ↗

— Kyra Sedgwick

#attracted #big #big movie #i #movie

And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age. ↗

— Lisa See

#beauty #because #bound #contest #feet

But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that. ↗

— Lisa See

#because #books #certain #footnotes #i

It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing. ↗

— Lisa See

#behind #call #china #contests #curtains

One of the things that's pretty unique about nu shu, when you look especially at these old letters and stories that have been saved, is that there are certain lines that are very standard that are used again and again. It's almost like a formula in a sense, so that these certain lines come up again and again. ↗

— Lisa See

#again #almost #been #certain #come

Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#been #centuries #dissent #down #establishments

I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#any #asked #compulsion #especially #glad