#mills

You're much shorter than my mom." "Brat," she said, surprised into a giggle. "That's no way to talk to a vampire." "Bloodsucking brat." "Better" he said. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#doctor-mills #ghost-town #michael-glass #morganville-vampires #rachel-caine

At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#back #belonged #comparatively #conducted #craft

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ↗

— Charles A. Beard

#dark #destroy #enough #exceedingly #fertilizes

Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#avenue #buyers #calling #door #entailed

Dick Mills was in charge of sound effects and all the rest then, and he put the voice through a ring modulator or whatever gizmos he'd got at the time to make it sound a little more electronic. ↗

— John Leeson

#effects #electronic #gizmos #got #little

The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills. ↗

— Maureen O'Hara

#hayley #mills #parent #performances #remarkable

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law. ↗

— Mary Stewart

#god #law #lightning #like #mills

We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour. ↗

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

#designed #flour #grain #had #i

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#history #insisted #intersection #mills #proper

It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference. ↗

— Norma McCorvey

#any #difference #go #how #lot