#pair

I cut the feet off of a pair of panty hose and it allowed me to wear a pair of great strappy sandals. I didn't see lines but the hose rolled up at my feet - and that's how Spanx born. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#born #cut #feet #great #how

I did not like the way I looked in a pair of white pants. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#i #like #looked #pair #pants

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#idea #neglect #no idea #only #quite

I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that. ↗

— Eliza Dushku

#awful #doubles #during #first #hitting

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#begin #bicycles #brothers #business #caves

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#came #comrades #despairing #farewell #freedom

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#despair #exist #habit #i #i do

At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia. ↗

— Amar Bose

#anything #business #could #electronic #fix

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#both #built #despair #destination #easy

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#bondage #clash #just #pair #pin