#w

A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx. ↗

— Saul Steinberg

#beautiful woman #madonna #only #painted #queen

In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store. ↗

— Jack Steinberger

#chicago #evenings #family #helped #i

Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying. ↗

— James Gandolfini

#grow #horrifying #occasionally #older #pants

You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in. ↗

— James Gandolfini

#even #know #look #slip #stuff

I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work. ↗

— Jeff Gannon

#attorney #believe #had #him #i

I am tough. Sometimes I'm unreasonable. I have to catch myself every once in a while. ↗

— George Steinbrenner

#catch #every #i #i am #myself

Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge. ↗

— George Steinbrenner

#appeals #baseball #beer #best #clearly

If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the eurozone, no longer necessarily consists of 17 member states. And that means to make provisions so that other countries are not pulled into the maelstrom through contagion. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#contagion #countries #currency #european #eurozone

When I look at the chaotic and volatile debate right now, both in Germany and around the world, my impression and concern is that the daily barrage of proposals and political statements is making markets and consumers even more nervous. Still, Brussels is pressing for a joint European approach. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#around #both #brussels #chaotic #concern

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#after #dreaming #excitement #form #imagination