#alley

The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He's an insider. He's a moderate. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#back #bowling #bowling alley #brings #club

It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard. But you also had the counter-culture, the Bay Area. That entire brew came together in Steve Jobs. ↗

— Erik Qualman

#area #bay #bay area #been #brew

You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers. ↗

— Peter Shumlin

#bigger #brooks #got #into #lot

I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#had #hills #how #i #know

A provisional government was appointed on April 1 (it consisted mainly of Talleyrand's whist partners), and the following day the Senate, on Talleyrand's urging, declared Napoleon deposed. ↗

— J. Christopher Herold

#talleyrand #age

I like that about art, that what you see is sometimes more about who you are than what’s on the wall. I look at this painting and think about how everyone has some secret inside, something sleeping like that yellow bird. ↗

— Cath Crowley

#read-again #really-enjoi-it #art

For the first time, I smelled her. I can't describe the smell. Flowery, yet somehow musty, like a beautiful woman with the soul of an old book. ↗

— Caris O'Malley

#bizzare #cris-o-malley #the-egg-said-nothing #beauty

So what do you do?' she asked. 'I sneak around at night, well, usually at night, and gather coins out of fountains', I said slowly, watching her face for judgement. She burst into laughter. 'Like spare change? You collect people's wishes? And you spend them on yourself?' 'They're not wishes' I said. 'They lose their symbolism once they hit corporate water. At that time they either become extra income for people who don't need it, or they can help me get along in the world. ↗

— Caris O'Malley

#bizzaro #cris-o-malley #the-egg-sa #change

Elizabeth scowled, feeling like a nobody, a nothing. She felt like her entire self had been made worthless. She could change her interests, but she couldn’t change her looks. She’d never be six feet tall. She’d never look like a supermodel. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#superficiality #supermodels #sweet-valley #worthless #change

In Bruce’s opinion, the only fun in dating was the sport of it. The more it was like a tennis match, where he had to wear down his opponent through expertise and sheer force of will, the better he liked it. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#creepy #dating #sweet-valley #dating