#rod

Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children. ↗

— Bob Filner

#bill #children #congress #direction #food

Basically, you're selling a world as an actor, right? I mean it's like any sales person: if you believe in your product, you know your product, you sell it a lot better. ↗

— Paul Walker

#any #basically #believe #better #i

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world. ↗

— William Cobbett

#leap #misery #much #produced #reach

I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade. ↗

— Howard Coble

#austria #baltic #both #crime #estonia

Hawkwind are one of those bands that people introduce you to because you don't see them on the covers of magazines. I'd heard 'Silver Machine' but Russell Senior, who was in Pulp, got me into them. They had a song called 'Master Of The Universe' and we nicked the title in 1985 for one of our songs. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#because #called #covers #got #had

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#always #beautiful #beautiful things #become #fashion

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#commonplace #did #done #effect #freshness

My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#answer #been #continue #dubious #hesitant

The producers probably won't like this, but I always describe her as Peppermint Patty on acid. ↗

— Mindy Cohn

#always #describe #her #i #i always

I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#i #rodeo #smart #street #unfortunately