#led

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#boiled #contraception #down #easier #easy

When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer. ↗

— Melvin Burgess

#called #child #collecting #decide #english

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#called #came #guess #i #i came

I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#burst #circumstances #controlled #goodman #guard

Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#anyone #around #estimate #fooled #inaccurate

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#bush #cheney #failed #iraq #laid

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed. ↗

— Sid Caesar

#called #enjoyed #goals #life #lived

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

#down #inferiority #into #life #nothing

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#empirically #finding #following #genius #inspiration

I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped. ↗

— Simon Cameron

#called #few #here #i #i am