#mar

You could have another downgrade. You could certainly have a stock market reaction that would be negative. And, I think nobody who looks at it objectively would want to happen. ↗

— Rob Portman

#certainly #could #downgrade #happen #i

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#chip #create #figure #find #following

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#art #artist #find #him #his

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#been #market #nothing #only #pay

It is most unwise for people in love to marry. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#marry #most #people #unwise

You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#anything #best-seller #certain #copies #damn

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them. ↗

— Colin Powell

#denominations #different #different points #fact #gay

A marriage license should not be viewed as a license for a husband to forcibly rape his wife with impunity. ↗

— Sol Wachtler

#his #husband #impunity #license #marriage

In the past, those who had ideas they wished to communicate to the public had the unquestioned right to disseminate those ideas in an open marketplace, called a mall, we should not abridge that right. ↗

— Sol Wachtler

#communicate #disseminate #had #ideas #in the past

Indeed, when all parties campaign effectively the overall effect is to push up voting rates, as you see in tight marginal seats or close general elections. That must be good for democracy. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#close #democracy #effect #effectively #elections