#ted

The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#above #against #being #dictated #ducks

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#counted #counting #does #enough #every

Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's here in the United States. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#decided #england #first #go #had

The President and the Democrats on Congress have exploited the financial crisis to advance their socialist big government tax, spend and borrow agenda. ↗

— Bradley A. Blakeman

#agenda #big #big government #borrow #congress

We didn't lose as many lives as had been predicted although we're still in the process of finding those we lost. ↗

— Kathleen Blanco

#been #finding #had #lives #lose

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel. ↗

— John Keats

#displayed #energies #fine #grace #hated

An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#international #leads #long #long run #motivated

Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

#completed #down #every #harper #i

Acting was all I ever really wanted to do. ↗

— Kate Walsh

#ever #i #really #wanted

They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#enclose #forms #harmony #life #related