#sine

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living. ↗

— William Nicholson

#after #among #another #because #business

Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#bum #businessman #cut #every #every time

Obama wants to take the individual small business tax to 44 percent, and the corporate rate - he says - down to 28 percent or whatever. But that really damages the small businesses. And it doesn't make us competitive. You got to take them both down to 20, because state and local corporate taxes are 5 percent. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#both #business #businesses #competitive #corporate

I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times. ↗

— Gary Numan

#business #distinctive #glad #good #got

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#business #direction #having #instincts #involved

Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#both #brothers #business #course #i

In Chinese business culture, humility is a virtue. ↗

— Stefan H. Verstappen

#china #travel #business

Simultaneously, the movie business now experiments with a colorblind approach to casting. ↗

— Michael Medved

#business #casting #colorblind #experiments #movie

The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties. ↗

— Michael Medved

#common #compounding #deny #difficulties #dimension

Libyans have to work together for a new Libya. They should keep in place the sinews of security. ↗

— Andrew Mitchell

#libya #new #place #security #should