#ropes

It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard. ↗

— Kate Middleton

#hard #i #know #learn #obviously

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#dance #garlands #golden #i #ropes

Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#corners #help #know #make #mistakes

I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes. ↗

— Payne Stewart

#around #captain #cart #gallery #i

I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double. ↗

— James Stockdale

#blood #circulation #did #double #fifteen

I could tell I loved her from the moment I saw her, right after she opened the trunk, untied me, and took off my blindfold.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bound #kidnap #love #ropes #trunk

Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something which the real world lacks: it gives us immediacy, direction, a sense of clarity and value as an individual. ↗

— David Amerland

#social-media-addiction #social-media-qualities #social-network-tropes #business

My first thought was, “I got a haircut and trimmed my pubes for this job interview?” Then I thought, “Maybe being a political intern isn’t such a bad gig after all. I could learn the ropes that bind the people into bondage.”
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— Jarod Kintz

#dirty #haircut #intern #internship #interview