#sing

When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot. ↗

— Drew Carey

#like #losing #play #poker #pot

We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming. ↗

— Howard Carter

#astonished #beauty #could #displayed #imagined

The beauty myth of the present is more insidious than any mystique of femininity yet: A century ago, Nora slammed the door of the doll's house; a generation ago, women turned their backs on the consumer heaven of the isolated multiapplianced home; but where women are trapped today, there is no door to slam. The contemporary ravages of the beauty backlash are destroying women physically and depleting us psychologically. If we are to free ourselves from the dead weight that has once again been made out of femaleness, it is not ballots or lobbyists or placards that women will need first; it is a new way to see. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #eating-disorders #images #magazines #marketing

Straw purchasing is illegal. ↗

— Jason Chaffetz

#purchasing #straw

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess. ↗

— Fanny Burney

#ashamed #confess #confessing #i #i am

I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#hated #i #know #lot #pretty

Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their continental equivalents. This has emerged to be one of the main bottlenecks to getting investment going in the U.K. It is a Bank of England issue. ↗

— Vince Cable

#associations #bank #cannot #continental #due

I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today. ↗

— James Callaghan

#am #because #blue #blue sky #i

He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing. ↗

— Simon Callow

#hours #just #practising #spent #such

90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness. ↗

— Cab Calloway

#going #happiness #hear #interested #nobody