#mills

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

In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone? ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#bill #birds #children #cotton #day

My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#england #first #goodnight #hayley #her

When I was starting, there were wool mills in the U.S. that could make you anything. The U.S. used to produce the most beautiful cotton denim in the world. Now all that is gone. ↗

— Anna Sui

#beautiful #cotton #could #gone #i