#pensive

Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#deliver #devices #economies #expensive #governments

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive. ↗

— Ann Oakley

#alternatives #career #clearly #expensive #insisting

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible. ↗

— Charley Reese

#efficient way #expensive #government #incompetent #inefficient

It's not what you spend but how you wear it that counts. The key is often to dress up inexpensive basics with accessories. Something like a beautiful designer bag or belt can make everything else look richer and more luxurious. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#bag #basics #beautiful #belt #counts

Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#alive #everyone #expensive #i #lawyers

You have no idea how expensive it is to look this cheap. ↗

— Steve Tyler

#expensive #how #idea #look #no idea

Just don't go to a place where everything is too expensive... it'll put your husband in a bad mood. ↗

— Diane von Furstenberg

#bad mood #everything #expensive #go #husband

The Chair I’m writing to you, who made the archaic wooden chair look like a throne while you sat on it. Amidst your absence, I choose to sit on the floor, which is dusty as a dry Kansas day. I am stoic as a statue of Buddha, not wanting to bother the old wooden chair, which has been silent now for months. In this sunlit moment I think of you. I can still picture you sitting there-- your forehead wrinkled like an un-ironed shirt, the light splashed on your face, like holy water from St. Joseph’s. The chair, with rounded curves like that of a full-figured woman, seems as mellow as a monk in prayer. The breeze blows from beyond the curtains, as if your spirit has come back to rest. Now a cloud passes overhead, and I hush, waiting to hear what rests so heavily on the chair’s lumbering mind. Do not interrupt, even if the wind offers to carry your raspy voice like a wispy cloud. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#chair #insightful #metaphor #peaceful #pensive

In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis. ↗

— Lois Capps

#dirtiest #drilling #energy #expensive #most

I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were. ↗

— Ted Demme

#because #bit #expensive #filmmakers #films