#adam

When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#almost #barbie #belonged #biographies #books

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#being #business #congress #did #elected

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most of the city is set alight. It's a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.' ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#alight #almost #become #books #city

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#calculate #cannot #equation #eve #imaginary

It's time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#adams #anthony #attract #card #checked

We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference. ↗

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

#children #difference #just #makes #skin

Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth. ↗

— Albion W. Small

#analysis #attempt #century #implicit #interest

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise. ↗

— Robert South

#aristotle #athens #paradise #rubbish #rudiments

These months drive us to listen within. ↗

— Charol Messenger

#futurist #mayan-calendar #new-cosmic-age #new-humanity #nostradamus

I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#directing #french #had #hard #hard time