#pole

What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#historical #institutions #losing #new #old

I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay. ↗

— Chris Martin

#approaching #being #coldplay #dynamite #get

Yeah, it turns out that guys don't like deals on laser hair removal or pole dancing lessons. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#deals #guys #hair #laser #lessons

I choose my work very carefully, always for the script and the director, and I don't think that's going to change. My work is like a house. It's built on very strong poles. ↗

— Franka Potente

#built #carefully #change #choose #director

Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible. ↗

— Alain Prost

#effort #get #going #i #i always

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#effectively #exile #hidden #more #others

Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#considers #dictatorship #during #even #experiments

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#bamboo #climb #god #important #important thing

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go. ↗

— Andy Roddick

#far #go #pole #seventh #sixth

Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think. ↗

— Barry Zito

#comes #god #people #pole #pray