#per

Humility is no substitute for a good personality. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#humility #personality #substitute

It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#circumstances #content #could #difficult #difficult circumstances

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money. ↗

— Rudolf Bing

#business #loses #making #making money #money

There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again. ↗

— Rudolf Bing

#any #comes #curtain #disaster #down

I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#am #beyond #case #far #goes

As a personal beneficiary of the service that Amtrak provides and as someone who represents a congressional district that counts on safe, reliable rail service, I am a strong supporter of providing this vital industry the funding necessary to continue operations. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#amtrak #congressional #congressional district #continue #counts

However, this President sees no problem eliminating funding for Perkins Loans in his budget, even though the cost of tuition is rising and will continue to rise as the administration's policies force inflation. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#budget #continue #cost #eliminating #even

Here is my general approach to the energy companies. You have already charged the utilities a 50 percent credit penalty for the power they were buying from you. You're charging us a penalty. You're not going to get two bites of the apple here. ↗

— Gray Davis

#apple #approach #bites #buying #charged

Now, in the space of a year, we've spent 450 percent more for power than we did the year before, and bought essentially the same amount of power. This year, that number's likely to go up. That can't go on forever and have us continue to be the economic engine for America. ↗

— Gray Davis

#amount #before #bought #continue #did

The network shows tend to be run, in general, in my experience, by committee, and it's hard for actors and writers to do their jobs. ↗

— Hope Davis

#experience #general #hard #jobs #network