#runs

My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. ↗

— Joan Didion

#am #best #best interests #counter #forget

But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie. ↗

— Roberto Bolano

#art #damn #damn thing #every #just

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#biggest #book #country #crow #end

But you don't decide what to do with the info. Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one who controls thought. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us. ↗

— David Bohm

#controls #decide #each #false #gives

Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win. ↗

— Charles Evers

#anybody #black #comes #country #democrats

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#face #fast #out #passport #pretty

Prior to 'The Shield,' basic cable was just a wasteland of reruns and NASCAR. When we came along, I think there was a collective, 'Hey, if they can do that, why can't we?' from the basic-cable networks of the world. We ended up being the cornerstone for a network, and a great one. ↗

— Michael Chiklis

#basic #being #cable #came #collective

It's the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don't know who they are. ↗

— Jim Cramer

#company #fact #fund #guy #itself

For true downtime, I enjoy going for light runs, having drinks with friends and going to the movies with my husband. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#drinks #enjoy #friends #going #having

I am proud of my black roots and of the black blood that runs in my veins. ↗

— Ryan Giggs

#black #blood #i #i am #proud