#pi

I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#better off #born #came #country #despised

The major championships have always been a special focus in my career, and as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#been #career #championships #focus #i

To get through the night, I sometimes imagined the sky filled with a canopy of stars. I imagined that each star contained the soul of a girl or boy who had died too young, and the light the stars gave off was their brightness. ↗

— Jill Bialosky

#death #died-too-young #stars #suicide #death

Of course [Barbie] is beautiful and glamorous, but I also like to think that she’s intelligent, confident, good-humored, well-traveled, gracious, well-read, compassionate, and rich, rich, rich—but from the fruits of her own labor and ingenuity. In short, she’s got it all! ↗

— Bryon Lars

#fashion #inspirational #beauty

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#impossible #obstacle #overcome #stubbornness #stupid

I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#happiness #love #philosophy #death

I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#entrepreneurial spirit #hard #i #just #myself

Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#coward #discredit #movement #out #real

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players. ↗

— Walter Becker

#aside #been #i #musician #other

My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education. ↗

— Gary Becker

#blacks #both #calculate #capital #different