#why

The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#budget #every #everyone #fail #federal

I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am? ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#bio #cooler #found #i #i am

I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed. ↗

— M. F. K. Fisher

#bottles #breathed #did #drank #grapes

As the springboard flips, I Dive from the highway overpass. Doctor says once a jumper, always. In dreams I crash into bitumen rivers Climb out of the pitch and sway To the rush of the Doppler effect. It's so amniotic. Only a few more leaps, then Niagara. No nets please, I'm the waterfall. ↗

— Karen Knight

#dreams

My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother? ↗

— Jackie Collins

#help #need #philosophy #sick #unless

I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70; 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40; so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point. ↗

— Joan Collins

#anyway #i #know #mean #new

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy? ↗

— Auguste Comte

#allowed #biology #chemistry #freely #men

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win. ↗

— Nadia Comaneci

#hard #hard work #i #made #secret

I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way. ↗

— Jennifer Connelly

#choices #finish #i #i do #like

I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly. ↗

— Sean Connery

#boring #chance #conversations #english #french