#ore

I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ↗

— Philip Green

#british #closed #could #down #home

Now I am an old hag, I get to play much more interesting characters. ↗

— Joan Greenwood

#characters #get #hag #i #i am

I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#i #i think #men #more #novels

We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives. ↗

— Peter Singer

#expensive #generation #live #lives #lot

If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#continents #dangers #did #discovered #her

I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity's problem rather than my personal problem. ↗

— Robert Guillaume

#blamed #considered #felt #honestly #humanity

I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore. ↗

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

#bananas #buy #even #getting #green

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#help #i #ignore #law #me

When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#aiming #blind #direction #get #important

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#chores #expected #family #had #i