#ron

Iron hand in a velvet glove. ↗

— Charles V

#hand #iron #velvet

The hardest thing is trying not to correct everything on the Internet. It'd be night and day - wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So you just have to say, 'All right, I'll take it, bring it on.' ↗

— George Clooney

#correct #day #everything #hardest #i

Social Security is at last on the nation's front burner. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#front #last #nation #security #social

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look. ↗

— Chuck Close

#does #front #life #look #looking

This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#court #directors #east #government #great

And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged and manipulated to get those things in there that I knew to be strong. ↗

— Terry Zwigoff

#be strong #constructed #fiction #film #get

If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#get #involved #living #make #mind

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#read #reasons #time #try #wrong

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#being #brazil #career #death #encouraged

The cost of acquiring new customers and maintaining those relationships in an online environment versus bricks and mortar is significant. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

#bricks #cost #customers #environment #maintaining