#p

The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy. ↗

— Bob Greene

#being #competition #constantly #know #late

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing. ↗

— Graham Greene

#beings #governments #human #human beings #i

For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#cocktails #destroyed #dinner #even #friends

When the gun fires you must concentrate for every second on the way to that finish line. You should know exactly how long it will take you to and think about every step of the race you are about to run. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#concentrate #every #every second #every step #exactly

Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved. ↗

— Nancy Greene

#achieved #cared #community #did #go

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections. ↗

— Meg Greenfield

#everybody #gives #objections #only #practice

If we descended from space aliens, that's just as viable as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, as far as I'm concerned. ↗

— Jon Gries

#as far as #concerned #descended #eden #eve

Shane? Thank God, somebody sane. Well, sane-ish. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#morganville-vampires #shane-collins #ghost

Our goal isn't to close Wal-Mart down. It is to make it a better, more humane company toward its employees and the communities it is in. ↗

— Robert Greenwald

#close #communities #company #down #employees

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration. ↗

— Colin Greenwood

#coltrane #inspiration #kid #motion #motion picture