#ouch

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#history #language #merely #place #takes

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side. ↗

— David Bailey

#hate #i #men #side #their

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy. ↗

— Alec Baldwin

#everything #manure #policy #public #public policy

She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those silhouettes which artists draw in three strokes on the tablecloth in a café after dinner, between a glass of brandy and a cigarette. Nature sometimes turns out creatures like that. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#pretty-girls #sketch #nature

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#i #imagination #means #people #possible

We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#believe #course #customers #either #go

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#childlike #flight #giants #great #great man

In my spare time I like watching TV, laying on the couch, just chillin'. ↗

— Casey Abrams

#i #just #laying #like #spare

You can teach all the other stuff, you know. You can teach shooting the ball, you can teach having a good touch... passing and whatnot, but when you get out there on the field, it's just a mindset you need to go into the game with. ↗

— Freddy Adu

#field #game #get #go #good

I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people. ↗

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

#been #extremely #i #part #people