#rest

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them. ↗

— David Bowie

#interesting #mediocrity #men #take #them

So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#big #big oil #companies #energy #energy companies

I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#believe #big #big challenge #challenge #frankly

Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where. ↗

— Robert Bridges

#cloud #fly #gather #i #know

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires. ↗

— Dorothy Corkville Briggs

#breeding #comes #compare #comparisons #fan

Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#diversity #enjoy #ethnic #food #had

It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd be able to convey more through dialogue. ↗

— Adrien Brody

#another #because #convey #dialogue #feel

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places. ↗

— Louise Brown

#been #books #cumulative #hearing #importance

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#called #did #hollywood #i #interest

Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions. ↗

— Harry Browne

#choices #communities #decisions #desires #generate