#ties

There are some promotions in life, which, independent of the more substantial rewards they offer, acquire peculiar value and dignity from the coats and waistcoats connected with them. A field-marshal has his uniform; a bishop his silk apron; a counsellor his silk gown; a beadle his cocked hat. Strip the bishop of his apron, or the beadle of his hat and lace; what are they? Men. Mere men. Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#formalities #titles #imagination

Nineties style isn't. ↗

— David Borenstein

#style

A hero is defined by what he or she can do, not by what he or she cannot do. ↗

— Damon Throop

#ability #confidence #confident #hero #heroes

Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable, sensible human being. ↗

— James Belushi

#celebrities #chicago #democratic #general #human

To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having their fingers pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#thirties #time #economy

I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#atrocities #casualties #kids #media #war

Corporations are like countries now, there's a king, there are serfs, there's a court, basically everything but moats. They're feudal societies, and there are good ones and bad ones. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#basically #corporations #countries #court #everything

I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body. ↗

— Rachel Blanchard

#activities #body #enjoy #fit #good

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#committees #found #i #parks #searched

Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#become #creativity #essence #many #performance