#rank

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#always #made #means #men #nowadays

Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#aretha franklin #around #being #flack #franklin

Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like that - I was always more inclined to listen to ballads. ↗

— William Bell

#around #ballads #cole #enough #frank

Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#artwork #best #big #big screen #books

Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#cranky #either #nasty #senile #show

Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it's necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes of the two by four to get its attention. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#between #dealing #doing #eyes #four

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#am #being #book #first #frank

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#beauty #distinctions #entry #find #front

Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell you?' So I went over and we sat down and he said, 'This picture starts in heaven'. That shook me. ↗

— James Stewart

#come #day #down #frank #heaven

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#exciting #frankly #i #liberating #pretend