#ran

I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#built #business #exactly #family #fun

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#back #care #family history #generations #goes

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#class #class background #family #i #immigrants

Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#down #fingers #imagining #inner #juice

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies. ↗

— Frances Cornford

#branch #consists #deceiving #friends #lying

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#american youth #culture #decade #period #teenage

War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares. ↗

— John Cory

#eternity #fill #frantic #into #jammed

Would you like to borrow a pair of my panties to wave around at the next Council meeting to get the point across?” His eyes flashed. “Got any to spare?” I could’ve picked somebody rational. But no, I had to fall in love with this arrogant idiot. Come to the Keep with me, be my princess. Mourn me when your crazy dad kills me. Yeah, right. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#funny #kate #love #funny

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived. ↗

— E. Joseph Cossman

#least #let us #live #lived #long

Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l'orange. ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#cook #counter #decorate #duck #granite