#means

Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept a secret by women in one very remote county in China for a thousand years. It's the only language that was invented and used by women to have been found anywhere in the world. ↗

— Lisa See

#been #china #county #found #invented

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone. ↗

— Susan Powter

#anything #be original #because #few #few people

Well, I can do certain jobs because smells don't bother me. But that means I'm usually the one at the ranch cleaning up all the manure. ↗

— Bill Pullman

#bother #certain #cleaning #i #i can

I never thought my marriage could be stronger, or I could be closer to Bill. We prayed on our own, but now we prayed together and you'll never know how much that means until you do it. ↗

— Giuliana Rancic

#closer #could #how #i #know

I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time. ↗

— Lou Rawls

#been #blues #doing #done #full

Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow. ↗

— Leon Redbone

#close #day #dreaming #dreams #empty

A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived. ↗

— Vanessa Redgrave

#being #completely #deprived #forces #generation

I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#corps #country #defend #i #i love

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends. ↗

— Giorgos Seferis

#action #cunning #dose #egoism #ends

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#everything #excuse #had #impossible #lead