#quart

You never really know about a quarterback until he plays in a real game. ↗

— Mike Singletary

#game #know #never #plays #quarterback

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood. ↗

— Ruben Hinojosa

#adulthood #disadvantaged #force #house #one-quarter

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#been #billion #common #except #fact

It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#covers #cultural #each #ethnic #historical

The point of art is not to give you what you already feel comfortable with; that’s reporting, not art, that TV, not art, that’s magaziney art, not art. Art gives you so personal an interpretation that it compels you to say, “This here is more real than what I know is really out there. ↗

— André Aciman

#interview #quarterly-conversation #art

I was always a big fan of waiting a year of two to groom an NFL quarterback; let him learn and mature. ↗

— Terrell Davis

#big #big fan #fan #groom #him

To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson! ↗

— Anne Seward

#criticism #derision #entering #exposed #female

Call me Dudley. We're of equal rank. I'm older, but you're far better looking. I can tell we're going to be grand partners. ↗

— James Ellroy

#dudley-smith #l-a-quartet #noir #equality

My father,' I replied, 'I am fond of action. I like to succour the afflicted, and make people happy. Command that there be built for me a tower, from whose top I can see the whole earth, and thus discover the places where my help would be of most avai1.' 'To do good, without ceasing, to mankind, a race at once flighty and ungrateful, is a more painful task than you imagine,' said Asfendarmod. ------ After saying these words, my father motioned to us to retire; and immediately I found myself in a tower, built on the summit of Mount Caf - a tower whose outer walls were lined with numberless mirrors that reflected, though hazily and as in a kind of dream, a thousand varied scenes then being enacted on the earth. Asfendarmod's power had indeed annihilated space, and brought me not only within sight of all the beings thus reflected in the mirrors, but also within sound of their voices and of the very words they uttered. (“The Story of The Peri Homaiouna”) ↗

— William Beckford

#hero #jinn #peri #spirit #super-hero

The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack. ↗

— Richard Stengel

#great #headquarters #incredibly #museums #number