#ties

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#celebration #contain #even #fact #illusion

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy. ↗

— Barney Frank

#hierarchy #legislators #responsibilities #set #together

I want companies who get federal contracts to hire more women and minorities from the local area. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#companies #contracts #federal #get #hire

What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities. ↗

— Dorothee Solle

#important #life #possibilities #someone #waiting

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#decades #interest #me #people #roaring

Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#activities #grades #make #more #powerful

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#competing #curiosities #divorced #facts #isolated

Other kids would sneak out of the house to go to parties and do untoward things. I was sneaking out to do standup downtown. It paid off. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#go #house #i #kids #off

There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#certain #certain things #ordinary #ordinary people #people

I always wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in high school, and I was accepted to dental school in the spring of 1972. I was planning to go, but after the Olympics there were other opportunities. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#after #always #dental #dentist #go