#sum

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. ↗

— John Updike

#adult #bore #consumes #each #half

Success is the sum of details. ↗

— Harvey S. Firestone

#success #success is #sum

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#mind #summer #winter #change

That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other. ↗

— Christopher Darden

#consume #each #lawyers #other #possible

I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress. ↗

— Stacey Dash

#assuming #awful #because #came #characters

The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#city #country #every #first #given

Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#american #american consumers #billion #cannot #consumers

Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will. ↗

— Brad Bird

#assume #because #brain #direction #every

Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable. ↗

— Neal Barnard

#consumption #dangerous #fast-food #health #holding

Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will. ↗

— Artur Davis

#being #cleaning #country #executive #experience