#rank

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#average #average woman #file #opened #rank

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money. ↗

— Earl Warren

#ben #discovered #franklin #invented #made

And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament. ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#answer #appropriate #back #been #chief

At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#class #court #debt #debt limit #financial

I love everything that Frank Gehry does. I wish I could have that man build me a Wayne Manor-style mansion, like his idea of it. ↗

— Pharrell Williams

#could #does #everything #frank #his

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#describe #frankness #people #themselves

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. ↗

— Ellen Willis

#also #art #consumption #corporate #frankenstein

Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#benjamin franklin #discovered #electricity #franklin #invented

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#been #business #common #discuss #dream

In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John McCain creaked ahead like a cranky granddad whom Republicans let move to the front of the buffet line, deferring to seniority, as they had in 1996, when Bob Dole turtled to the top of the ticket. ↗

— James Wolcott

#barack #barack obama #bob #buffet #cranky