#manner

He was a fantastic player, but the thing that impressed me most about Paul was his manner off the pitch. He was always very humble about his achievements and had a lot of time for the paying public and people in general. ↗

— Kenny Cunningham

#achievements #always #fantastic #general #had

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#elaborate #end #like #manner #only

Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone. ↗

— Eyvind Johnson

#create #everyone #manner #many #means

I believe that treating other people well is a lost art. ↗

— Tim Gunn

#manners #art

There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was understood that one of society's main tasks was matchmaking. People with lifelong friendships and ties to local nonprofessional organizations did not have to fear that isolation would accompany retirement, old age, or losing a spouse. Overburdened householders could count on the assistance not only of their own extended families, but of the American tradition of neighborliness. ↗

— Judith Martin

#community #family #miss-manners #relationships #age

Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other. ↗

— Irving Ravetch

#i #i always #interpreted #law #lean

Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies. ↗

— Tim Burton

#gluttony #humor #manners #humor

The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#broken #changed #country #covered #direction

What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes. ↗

— Julian Assange

#benefit #clear #conducted #conducting #how

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. ↗

— Fred Astaire

#face #good #good manners #hardest #job