#pre

Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls. ↗

— Jules Verne

#base #called #eighty #embraces #everybody

There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country? ↗

— Jon Voight

#civil war #country #creating #now #obama

Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it. ↗

— David Fincher

#face #good #hold #nobody #perfume

Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is. ↗

— Howard Fineman

#acted #asked #certainly #closely #domestic

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth. ↗

— Albert Finney

#else #i #i always #lie #living

I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an unauthorized biography, and you can't stop them. It didn't worry me. ↗

— Albert Finney

#been #biography #busy #go #i

I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#boom #bust #dot-com #end #i

If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#be prepared #consistently #matter #organisation #prepared

I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season. ↗

— Ashley Tisdale

#because #i #i love #just #just because

When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#billions #children #cut #debt #dollars