#lean

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#course #day #days #easy #even

I strongly support the Bush Administration's clean diesel rules, which will reduce air pollution from diesel engines by more than 90 percent, and reduce the sulfur content of diesel fuel by more than 95 percent. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#air #air pollution #bush #clean #content

I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist. ↗

— John Cale

#i #keep #lean #mean #minimalist

I'm gonna perform on one of the nights. Good clean fun; we're not going to jail. For the record. ↗

— Luther Campbell

#fun #going #gonna #good #i

I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds. ↗

— Max Cannon

#breeds #brutal #cleaned #control #effort

I wondered where he was now whether I would ever hear him again. Whether someone would love him, someday show him what beauty mean't. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#beauty

I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies. ↗

— Kitty Carlisle

#born #go #i #i was born #movies

We have to shore this thing up like a New Orleans levy. ↗

— Richard Carlson

#like #new #new orleans #orleans #shore

The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received. ↗

— John le Carre

#always #cleanly #communicate #concern #directly

Character must be kept bright as well as clean. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#character #clean #kept #must #well