#lit

Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they? ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#black-and-white #films #frank #frank sinatra #guys

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#attempt #deal #his #little #much

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#concentrate #everything #time #use #well

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#big #boy #dog #even #go

When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social end of things which hinges on the political, but it isn't really part of it. ↗

— Janis Ian

#because #call #confusing #end #hinges

Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa. ↗

— John Sununu

#bring #comes #contact #corn #ethanol

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#inexcusable #journalists #make #politicians #scientists

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#being #doing #expanding #goes #i

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#art #everywhere #finding #incorrectly #looking

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#literature #beauty