#things

At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave you alone. People have less time just to drop into an art gallery. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#art #beck #call #drop #employers

One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#american #american people #barack #barack obama #case

I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy. ↗

— Tom Petty

#down #feel #i #lot #made

I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#bad #both #by the time #deep #develop

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first. ↗

— Jason Newsted

#art #designed #done #enough #first

If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion. ↗

— Origen

#became #been #clearly #fathers #him

I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me. ↗

— David Ortiz

#go #good #good things #i #make

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#applied #only #science #sciences #such

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#being #being a teenager #disastrous #fluffy #i

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike. ↗

— Walter Pater

#alike #even #eye #failure #form