#ge

I'm 27. I feel like I get it. I'm OK with being sexy if I feel like it. Some days I'm brainy, some days I'm funny, some days I'm sexy, and sometimes, I just want to dance. ↗

— Nelly Furtado

#brainy #dance #days #feel #funny

She emptied herself of Fabio and of herself, of all the useless efforts she had made to get where she was and find nothing there. With detached curiosity she observed the rebirth of her weaknesses, her obsessions. This time she would let them decide, since she hadn't been able to do anything anyway. Against certain parts of yourself you remain powerless, she said to herself, as she regressed pleasurably to the time when she was a girl. ↗

— Paolo Giordano

#weaknesses #change

Thoughts and feelings change sometimes, as one crosses the frontiers. ↗

— Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

#frontiers #thoughts #change

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. ↗

— Paul Fussell

#advertise #affiliations #anxiety #automobiles #college

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose. ↗

— Dan Gable

#fear #getting #had #high #high school

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. ↗

— Dennis Gabor

#archetypal #damages #evils #important #longer

But, as environment minister, I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry, because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#am #automobile #automobile industry #because #costs

We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first time we achieved that in Germany for many decades with the social market economy. That is no longer enough. Now we need to do it in Europe and even globally. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#capitalism #convinced #decades #democrats #economy

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are. ↗

— William Gaddis

#comics #gets #live #more #time

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge. ↗

— William Gaddis

#birth #computer #entire #grandfather #i