#off

I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#edited #floor #grade #i #juniors

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

#block #choose #chop #i #marble

If you look at the studies coming out of the Congressional Budget Office, the number one thing that's going to blow a hole in the deficit as we go forward 20, 30 years is government spending on healthcare. ↗

— Christina Romer

#budget #coming #congressional #deficit #forward

They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#basically #called #continuing #education #enrolled

Guys usually like a very natural look. I think it's bad idea to wear a strong lip on a first date - or for the first few dates. I'm always too nervous he'll kiss it off - if I'm lucky enough to get a kiss! I also think soft, sexy hair is important. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#always #bad #bad idea #date #dates

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts. ↗

— Philip Roth

#audacity #authority #beauty #belief #contest

By shading off, as I have done, the portion of the area of the diagram according to the individual age, every one may see how much of life is consumed, and what is left. ↗

— Warren De la Rue

#age #area #consumed #diagram #done

Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#down #go #i #lot #made

Sometimes dirty can come off really cute or come off 'I don't even want you to touch me.' ↗

— Kelly Rowland

#cute #dirty #even #i #me

It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets. ↗

— Bill Schuette

#cops #more #most #neighborhood #offenders