#nth

I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#days #five #force #i #iraq

I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#away #before #believed #berlin #berlin wall

I prefer working on films. I like the variety. There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then playing someone sweet for the next two. Films give you this opportunity. ↗

— Amy Weber

#bad girl #better #films #girl #give

Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee. ↗

— Ted Yoho

#cliff #coming #committee #did #hindsight

I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?' ↗

— Malin Akerman

#american idol #auditions #before #first #guys

We are pushing ahead as fast as we can for all audiences, whether for the business user, the child, or the digital music enthusiast. ↗

— Jim Allchin

#audiences #business #child #digital #enthusiast

What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#now #september #thinkable #unthinkable #world

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. ↗

— Arthur Balfour

#enthusiasm #enthusiasts #few #moves #speak

You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony. ↗

— John Barrymore

#how #month #never #pay #realize

It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection. ↗

— Michael Behe

#biological #century #could #discovered #elegant