#sec

Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket. ↗

— Marge Piercy

#blanket #bohemian #cloak #considered #fan

People are always so surprised when they meet me. Firstly, that I'm 'so tiny', and secondly that I'm 'so sweet'. They seem surprised that they're not scared of me. ↗

— Pink

#firstly #i #me #meet #people

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#birthday #birthday party #called #critics #day

Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then? ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#any #athletes #been #close #come

It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million. They're paying an effective tax rate in the teens. As Warren Buffett said, he pays less in taxes effectively than his secretary does. That's not right. ↗

— David Plouffe

#does #effective #effectively #fairness #going

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#gang #general #instinct #loathing #sect

When I get married, it'll be no secret. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#get #get married #i #married #secret

All I could feel was this warm liquid running down my neck. You automatically think it's blood, it's all in split seconds, so I decided to say I didn't agree with him. ↗

— John Prescott

#automatically #blood #could #decided #down

From 1997 when we came in, you guys and the public bought seven million more cars. You didn't get rid of the second car, did you? So what is happening is the growth of cars on the motorway. ↗

— John Prescott

#came #car #cars #did #get

We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent. ↗

— John Prescott

#billion #buy #desperately #discount #given