#us

We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#gasoline #go #going #prices #shortages

You can't invest in natural gas on a daily basis. It's too volatile. But if you think of natural gas as a long-term holding, then you push your profit horizon out. A long-term time horizon would be at least two years. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#daily #daily basis #gas #holding #horizon

It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother. ↗

— Charles Pierce

#better #black #gay #mother #tell

Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

#abuse #consumers #contributor #costs #goods

The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

#bodies #branches #direct #elections #exception

Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#different #four #gay #i #i wish

Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#buy #day #days #down #every

I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#business #friends #i #involve #likely

You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don't get a lot of expression on the keyboard. ↗

— Midge Ure

#down #expression #fingers #get #give

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#because #being #characters #come #even