#shed

Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean! ↗

— Fay Wray

#arms #being #clean #compulsive #crawford

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#books #building #finished #four #go

Slowly, even though I thought it would never happen, New York lost its charm for me. I remember arriving in the city for the first time, passing with my parents through the First World's Club bouncers at Immigration, getting into a massive cab that didn't have a moment to waste, and falling in love as soon as we shot onto the bridge and I saw Manhattan rise up through the looks of parental terror reflected in the window. I lost my virginity in New York, twice (the second one wanted to believe he was the first so badly). I had my mind blown open by the combination of a liberal arts education and a drug-popping international crowd. I became tough. I had fun. I learned so much. But now New York was starting to feel empty, a great party that had gone on too long and was showing no sign of ending soon. I had a headache, and I was tired. I'd danced enough. I wanted a quiet conversation with someone who knew what load-shedding was. ↗

— Mohsin Hamid

#drugs #empty #headache #immigration #liberal-arts

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#finished #man #quits

I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand. ↗

— Terry Gilliam

#bashed #because #control #demonstration #got

The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history. ↗

— Todd Akin

#history #iraqi #iraqi people #moment #people

Some days some times are remembered by me, in life’s all moments they are cherished by me ↗

— Amit Abraham

#days #moments #remembered #time #life

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#accomplished #believe #great #great things #people

But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there. ↗

— William Labov

#countries #covered #eastern #european #european countries

But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#arrangement #artificially #broken #could #emphasis