#ura

The funny thing is people won't let me pay for things. I'll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, 'Oh no, it's on the house.' ↗

— Richard Branson

#funny thing #house #i #manager #me

Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#bloom #county #environment #harper #kill

But, at the same time, I think that there is room for economic stimulus in terms of accelerated depreciation to encourage businesses to invest and to grow and ultimately to hire more people again. ↗

— John Breaux

#businesses #depreciation #economic #encourage #grow

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#democracy #extraordinary #few #here #i

We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#disposed #exist #experts #favourably #feel

Media, the plural of mediocrity. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#mediocrity #plural

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#down #else #everybody #everybody else #i