#ma

It's impossible. You try to have any kind of relationship with your family, with a man, or with a friend, and you have to be on the phone and the Internet the entire time. ↗

— Keira Knightley

#entire #entire time #family #friend #impossible

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human. ↗

— Keira Knightley

#characters #completely #constantly #fictional #great

What's nice about playing somebody real is that generally there's more information about them, so a lot of the questions that you'd otherwise have to make up the answers to are already there. ↗

— Keira Knightley

#already #answers #generally #information #lot

I've worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing. ↗

— Beyonce Knowles

#common #different #dresses #fit #i

You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#cold #efficient #eliminate #fact #fraud

One of the seats of emotion and memory in the brain is the amygdala, he explained. When something threatens your life, this area seems to kick into overdrive, recording every last detail of the experience. The more detailed the memory, the longer the moment seems to last. "This explains why we think that time speeds up when we grow older," Eagleman said--why childhood summers seem to go on forever, while old age slips by while we’re dozing. The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass. ↗

— Burkhard Bilger

#amygdala #brain #david-eagleman #detail #life-threatening

Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#bush #dying #hiding #malaria #malnutrition

I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back. ↗

— Eli Whitney

#back #fear #given #go #greater

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#cameroon #care #countries #donor #female

The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have. ↗

— John Hay Whitney

#community #day #every #every day #excitement