#si

The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#authors #british #humor #business

She suspects her husband, Jake, might be gay." "Did you suggest she ask him?" Mom laughed. "Of course not. Business is slow. ↗

— Lisa Lutz

#business

O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224) ↗

— William Shakespeare

#education #education

Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs. ↗

— Calista Flockhart

#around #bit #book #corner #dogs

My parents both worked full time. I remember a lot of simple meals. Everything I know about cooking is self-schooled. ↗

— Tyler Florence

#both #cooking #everything #full #i

My wife and I love to host wine and cheese parties. They are simple and elegant and you don't have to put a lot of effort and time into it. ↗

— Tyler Florence

#effort #elegant #host #i #i love

We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#been #corners #days #disturbing #forum

I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did. ↗

— Eddie Floyd

#did #get #i #never #pickett

Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care. ↗

— Sandra Fluke

#airwaves #attempts #because #care #discussions

My first two years in the CFL, all I thought of was getting back to the NFL - it was like 'I'll put my time in up here and go back.' Then I went and signed a nice contract in Calgary and was like, 'Hey, I can make a living up here, this is great football, and I'm having a blast.' ↗

— Doug Flutie

#blast #contract #first #football #getting