#pet

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else. ↗

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#allowed #because #competent #consistently #else

Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#circle #every #his #narrow

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#achieving #businessmen #competition #efficient #free

The competition is pretty rough these days. ↗

— Tony Randall

#days #pretty #rough #these

From the test situations which were used to reveal fears, it was found that Peter showed even more marked fear responses to the rabbit than to the rat. ↗

— Mary C. Jones

#fear #fears #found #marked #more

Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended to a rabbit, a fur coat, a feather, cotton wool, etc., but not to wooden blocks and similar toys. ↗

— Mary C. Jones

#began #blocks #coat #cotton #etc

Peter's fear of the animals which were shown him was probably not a directly conditioned fear. ↗

— Mary C. Jones

#directly #fear #him #peter #probably

It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia. ↗

— John Malkovich

#compete #different #europe #figure #how

The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis. ↗

— William Jackson

#based #characters #chicago #combinations #degree

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#constantly #given #i #might #movies