#mate

Horse racing is animated roulette. ↗

— Roger Kahn

#horse #horse racing #racing #roulette

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's. ↗

— Deborah Tannen

#each #her #other #own #underestimates

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#carpentry #hard #just #literature #material

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material. ↗

— Natasha Richardson

#comedy #darker #drawn #get #i

I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#am #because #filmmaking #how #i

My teammates, they keep you focused. ↗

— Torrey Smith

#keep #teammates #you

I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#business #career #climate #contrast #create

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#fallen-nations #futility #inevitability #knowledge #learning

I knew he would never leave me, never let me down-because the man had never abandoned anything in his long life. If I hadn’t taken the gold rope of our bond, I knew Adam would have sat on me and hog-tied me with it. I liked that. A lot. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#werewolves #life

The accouterments of life were so rich and varied, so elaborated, that almost no place at all was left for life itself. Each and every accessory was so costly and beautiful that it had an existence above and beyond the purpose it was meant to serve – confusing the observer and absorbing attention. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#things #beauty