#ok

I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about. It's those books I won't read anymore. There's too much else to read--books about people and things that matter, books about life and death. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

#characters #death #life #reading #death

From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#allocated #broken #bush #bush administration #change

I represent Staten Island and Brooklyn, and not just that the financial services industry is important to the U.S., but is disproportionately important to New York City. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#city #disproportionately #financial #financial services #i

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#awkward #did #hard #hard time #i

I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas. ↗

— Martha Stewart

#find #great #great opportunity #i #ideas

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#based #book #character #directly #every

I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#behind #i #i love #intention #looking

Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#because #break #challenger #change #close

I was amazed at the house that I grew up in; it looks practically identical to the way it was, but I couldn't recognize it because of the size of the trees. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#because #grew #house #i #identical

Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#aftermath #because #bush #connected #false