#pet

Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But again, those advantages won't mean much if we don't do a great job with the basics of our business. ↗

— Gerard Arpey

#again #amenities #basics #business #cannot

One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#because #behind #comedy #craft #frank

The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#atmosphere #competing #competitive #day #each

I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#adulthood #peter-pan-syndrome #age

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same—dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits—the repetition through the ages is comedy. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#human-nature #humanity #repetition #tragedy #age

The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us. ↗

— John Williams

#between #competition #cooperation #countries #healthy

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory. ↗

— Judy Woodruff

#democratic #everything #fresh #how #image

Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses. ↗

— Alfred P. Sloan

#competition #competitive #final #force #hoped

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. ↗

— Billy Joel

#am #competent #extraordinary #i #i am

At Evensong one night, while Holly played at sax and Mrs. Bethel Utemeyer joined in, I saw him: Holiday, racing past a fluffy white Samoyed. He had lived to a ripe old age on earth and slept at my father's feet after my mother left, never wanting to let him out of his sight... I waited for him to sniff me out, anxious to know if here, on the other side, I would still be the little girl he slept beside. I did not have to wait long: he was so happy to see me, he knocked me down. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#age