#tick

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#civic #distributing #does #duty #getting

But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership. ↗

— Chris Patten

#about #articulate #clear #doing #essence

I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#balloons #captions #descriptions #fashion #figures

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo. ↗

— Mary Pickford

#adding #like #lipstick #milo #putting

I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom. ↗

— Laura Prepon

#best #cool #fly #get #guy

I stick to my own type when I go out, and I don't make friends with people just because they're celebrities. ↗

— Katie Price

#celebrities #friends #go #i #just

180 episodes of 'CSI: Miami' and never the same lipstick twice! ↗

— Emily Procter

#lipstick #miami #never #same #twice

Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing. ↗

— Della Reese

#choir #gets #haven #i #i can

If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards. ↗

— Martha Reeves

#awards #end #enough #found #i

Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right. ↗

— James Reston

#even #going #optimists #right #stick