#ton

Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#believe #cliff #drift #earth #end

I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose. ↗

— Paul Begala

#bill clinton #clinton #comfortable #final #going

It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things. ↗

— Paul Begala

#answer #being #citizen #clinton #his

When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing, your body would drop into a chair, your head would tilt up, a small smile would creep across your face, and inside you knew that there was a higher power somewhere: gifted, beautiful, spiritual. ↗

— James Belushi

#across #beautiful #body #chair #collective

At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement. ↗

— Michael Bergdahl

#concept #considered #explain #idea #implement

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards. ↗

— Michael Bergdahl

#his #illustrative #master #reinforce #sam

I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#coffee #decisions #department #economics #had

Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis. ↗

— Nuno Bettencourt

#even #good #good band #i #i love

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#deadly #english #essential #example #identity

Love's tongue is in his eyes. ↗

— John Fletcher

#his #love #tongue