#sign

The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power. ↗

— Jerry Rubin

#individual #power #signs #ultimate #ultimate power

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#bartender #class #clerk #dad #financial

Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#business #chose #compel #designed #enterprise

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#endured #liked #offensive #patient #people

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#corner #far #find #forgotten #galaxies

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#achieved #add #away #designer #knows

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. ↗

— George Santayana

#eccentricity #graphic #graphic design #heresy #hobbies

Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#assign #comparison #cultural #dates #different

I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#attached #forget #head #highly #how

You get to say, 'Here's my philosophical idea about what the costume should like,' and the costume designer comes and gives you choices and sometimes they're all good, and I say, 'What do you think?' and they pick the right thing. ↗

— John Sayles

#choices #comes #costume #designer #get