#ra

Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly! ↗

— Rachel Hartman

#procrastination

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

#carry #considering #contract #earth #every

My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures. ↗

— Douglas Trumbull

#change #color #computer #design #graphics

Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#agreement #between #building #each #harmony

Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial. ↗

— Lyman Trumbull

#citizens #civil #civil rights #constitution #does

I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today. ↗

— Richard Trumka

#attack #back #bargain #collectively #expression

Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on. ↗

— Richard Trumka

#air #choke #collapsing #corporations #crushed

What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#means #method #new #presentation #rather

The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi, Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side. ↗

— Donald Trump

#arab #because #been #billions #dollars

I generally wake up, exercise and read through a huge amount of newspapers. I get to the office somewhere between 7:30 and 8:00 - my brothers and I are always the first ones in. ↗

— Ivanka Trump

#amount #between #brothers #exercise #first