#mitt

When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#arrived #been #country #dakota #first

Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#already #band #committed #crew #dates

The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors. ↗

— Edmund White

#editors #empty #ever #first #i

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to. ↗

— Katharine Whitehorn

#busy #committee #composed #longer #people

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#enough #enough people #guess #happen #hard

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ↗

— George Will

#america #combines #committee #football #meetings

The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity. ↗

— Paul M. Glaser

#character #i #liked #never #objectionable

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#committing #man #murder #never #suicide

You see people on TV flying in to places just to pick up a baby, or brush some flies away. That's great if they can bring that issue to public attention. But that's not what I wanted to do. I was interested in committing to something that I could function in whether I was Debra Winger or not. Because nobody might care about that next week. ↗

— Debra Winger

#attention #away #baby #because #bring

Mitt Romney - he had a Rock Hudson thing going, shoeblack hair and a well-hung resume, but even for a shameless, position-shifting phony he seemed a trifle insincere. ↗

— James Wolcott

#going #had #hair #hudson #insincere