#ding

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it. ↗

— Dave Barry

#american consumers #any #consumers #fat #floor

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough. ↗

— Dave Barry

#enough #feel #lethal #people #popular

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#exploding #love #love is #smoke #willingly

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#poor #rich

Having come to the conclusion that there was so much to do that she didn’t know where to start, Mrs Fowler decided not to start at all. She went to the library, took Diary of a Nobody from the shelves and, returning to her wicker chair under the lime tree, settled down to waste what precious hours still remained of the day. ↗

— Richmal Crompton

#libraries #reading #time #to-do-list #family

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#chosen #destruction #his #hussein #mass

It's important to still look like yourself on your wedding day, so I didn't do anything drastic. ↗

— Lily Aldridge

#day #drastic #i #important #like

It's not hard to read about death abstractly. I do find it tough when a character I love dies, of course. You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

#death #life #missing-someone #reading #death

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#character #easily #form #individual #nature

Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector. ↗

— Jane Alexander

#goes #leverage #most #organizations #our