#pet

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#appetite #cultivated #demand #every #fresh

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#beauty #care #choice #detail #execution

I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol. ↗

— Susan George

#automobiles #build #carbon #consume #consumption

Our employers today face numerous challenges and stiff competition from businesses all over the world. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#challenges #competition #employers #face #numerous

It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#beautiful #big #big hair #competitive #day

We're both accustomed to being the center of attention. We're both accustomed to being spoiled by the people around us. And we don't expect to have to compete with somebody for all of that. ↗

— Jim Lampley

#around #attention #being #both #by the people

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. ↗

— Ann Landers

#accept #admiration #conclusive #dog #evidence

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#commerce #competition #every #moral #neighbour

The budget acknowledges the importance of maintaining our ports and waterways to encourage commercial deep-draft navigation and economic competitiveness. ↗

— Jeff Landry

#commercial #competitiveness #economic #encourage #importance

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#appetite #appropriation #child #comes #desire