#na

At a time when we have much work to do to address our Nation's critical infrastructure, and, as I said, which is currently in dire need of upgrade and repair, this legislation is also a jobs bill and is obviously a jobs creator. ↗

— Howard Coble

#also #bill #creator #critical #currently

My home State of North Carolina ranks 12th in the United States for increased aging population and, according to a national report, 41st in overall health. According to this same report, individuals aged 50+ are the least healthy. ↗

— Howard Coble

#aged #aging #carolina #health #healthy

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination. ↗

— Alexander Cockburn

#lost #seeks #travel #valleys #world

The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.' ↗

— Tom Coburn

#demolished #earmark #earmarks #eye #factory

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real. ↗

— Frank Stella

#chaos #fully #human #human personality #into

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it. ↗

— Alexander Cockburn

#contradict #existing #first #first law #journalism

Here lies one whose name was writ in water. ↗

— John Keats

#lies #name #water #whose #writ

I’ve often wondered why more science textbooks don’t tell teenagers that the only thing sharks like to eat more than fish, are dead prostitutes. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#dead #fish #funny #humor #prostitutes

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#brightly #cheer #coloured #diet #discarded

Other kinds of movie stars, it's a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that's what people like to see, and they are not really transforming in terms of their character. ↗

— Joel Coen

#character #different #different thing #kinds #like