#tripp

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#anything #away #because #began #benefits

Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#box #breaker #circuit #function #fuse

We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#foundries #heat #please #stripped #waist

We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#already #although #begun #development #england

The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers. ↗

— Juliana Hatfield

#i see #popular #see #singers #strippers

I was in a play in elementary school and had to jump up and run away. I was nervous and tripped and fell down and everyone laughed. Their laughter made me relax, so I pretended it was part of the show. ↗

— Sherman Hemsley

#down #elementary #elementary school #everyone #fell

I think we should throw money at artists, not at girls who take their clothes off because they made a bad choice in life. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#strippers #life

The Ten Worst Songs to Strip To: 1. That Midnight Oil song about aborigines ↗

— Diablo Cody

#stripping #humor

…The shocking thing about any stripper gathering, I discovered, was that you have never heard women talk so fast and so explicitly about money in all your life. They make the guys on the trading floor on Wall Street look like a bunch of pansies. ↗

— Susie Bright

#strippers #death

We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone. ↗

— James D. Houston

#attractions #away #been #everything #fundamental