#venti

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it. ↗

— George Weinberg

#conventionality #every #every night #illness #night

Necessity, the mother of invention. ↗

— George Farquhar

#mother #necessity

If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now. ↗

— Sam Farr

#inventing #now #right

Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different. ↗

— Florence Griffith Joyner

#being different #conventional #different #i #like

I think it's appropriate for the international community in situations like this to intervene in Kosovo. I am in favor of an intervention. On some level, you have to say that at least somebody is doing something. ↗

— Mike Farrell

#appropriate #community #doing #favor #i

My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#admirers #ago #been #buried #cemetery

In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#between #conventions #crowd #different #entirely

Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention. ↗

— Mary Cheney

#decided #going #heather #i #low-key

The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#age #banking #banking system #conventional #faith

If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it. ↗

— Jeff Flake

#back #balanced #balanced budget #balanced budget amendment #benefits