“My meetings with [Ahmed Chalabi] were very brief. I mean, I think I met with him at the State of the Union and just kind of working through the rope line, and he might have come with a group of leaders. But I haven't had any extensive conversations with him.” ThinkingKindMeanStatesMightLinesLeaderGroupsHavensMetsConversationUnionsMeetingsRope Author:George W. Bush
“I think the knowledge about how legislation really affects small businesses is extremely valuable. If you haven't run a small business, then you don't have this kind of knowledge about how a regulation passed or taxes increased affects your bottom line. If you recognize that every new regulation takes that much more time to comply with, requires that many more employees, then it really gives you that foundational basis to make those decisions.” IfsThinkingGivingKindRunningLinesDecisionHavensTaxesBasesBottomValuableEmployeeMore TimeRegulationLegislationSmall BusinessBottom Line Author:Kristi Noem
“What matters is that they are curious about life, energy, truth, and themselves and that they haven't sold out to the establishment powers that tell us what to think, what to wear, how to behave, what to believe in and what goes beyond the line of rational and irrational thought.” ThinkingBelieveMatterEnergyLinesHavensBuddhismRationalCuriousBehaveEstablishmentWhat MattersIrrationalRamaSold OutRational Thought Author:Frederick Lenz
“New Haven cultivates ... an open gloom that seems happy to acknowledge disrepair and the superfluity of appearance. ... I realized that what cramped the town was the weight of unwritten volumes: they scored lines of unfinished writing on every second face that walked the streets.” WritingSeemsFacesLinesCitiesStreetsHavensWeightTownsAppearanceI RealizedAcknowledgeVolumeGloomUnfinishedEvery SecondUnwritten Author:Sara Suleri
“I found myself face to face with a long line of people resembling extras off the set of Night of the Living Dead: shuffling along, pale and twitching, empty cups in hand -- murderous. Miserable. No matter that the air was rich with vapors of fresh-ground beans and warm muffins; no matter that the soft piped-in Vivaldi poured over us like steamed milk. These angry zombies were rushing to work, and their eyes flashed fair warning: Don't mess with us. We haven't had our coffee.” PeopleLongMatterHandsEyeFacesNightFoundLinesRichAirHavensFairsEmptyAngryWarmCoffeeCupsMessMiserableExtrasWarningMilkPaleZombieFace To FaceBeansRushingVaporLong LinesMuffinsShufflingTwitchingEmpty CupVivaldiNight Of The Living Dead Author:Joan Frank
“Reality is the only place you can deal from. If you're still worrying about the way things should be, you haven't even approached the starting line.” IfsWayShouldStillsRealityLinesDealsWorryHavensStartingBe You Book:Feminine Force: Release the Power Within to Create the Life You Deserve Source: Feminine Force: Release the Power Within to Create the Life You Deserve
“I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness.. I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is mere a pretext for decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to express the absolute, not merely the factitious woman.” WantArtTermNaturalLinesEmotionHavensSkillsMassWeightAbsolutesMereImpressionPlusSentimentsTranslateVolumeCompositionSubjectiveLovelinessPretext Book:Georges Braque Source: Georges Braque
“A number of plastic surgeons are claiming that looking at John Kerry now, as opposed to a few months ago, they believe he's had Botox shots. They claim a number of his worry lines have vanished. They haven't vanished, just Howard Dean is wearing them now.” BelieveLinesNumbersWorryHavensMonthsShotsClaimsPlasticSurgeonsDeanJohn KerryBotoxPlastic Surgeons Author:Jay Leno
“When I went to my first CMA Fest, I wanted to be an artist, but I was such a fan girl - I still am - and the two people I waited in line to meet were Taylor Swift and Lady Antebellum. Taylor, I haven't gotten to sit and talk with her as much as I hope I get to one day, but even with her just supporting me on her social media has been incredible.” PeopleFirstsHas BeensStillsTwoWantedArtistGirlSocialLinesFansMediaHavensOne DayIncrediblesSocial MediaAntebellum Author:Kelsea Ballerini
“People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because they haven't accomplished what they wanted to on the first go-round. They're willing to do it twenty times, if necessary. There's an illusion that the good people can easily do something, and it's not necessarily true. They're just determined to do it right. I was impressed by hearing one of the women at Radcliffe talk about writing a poem, how many revisions a single poem sometimes has to go through -- fifty or sixty revisions to come out with a poem sixteen lines long.” PeopleIfsKnowsWritingMindFirstsWellsLongSometimesSeemsWantedLinesHavensWillingSucceedIllusionTwentiesRoundsHearingDeterminedAccomplishedFiftyGood PeopleSixtyImpressedStoppingCompetentSixteenRevision Author:Sylvia Earle
“We are missing the truth. We live in a society that lies and fosters and sells dishonesty at a discount. Remember the line, 'America spells cheese K-R-A-F-T? That does not spell cheese! We tell our kids that as long as it looks good on the outside, don't worry about the inside. Or work hard and you'll be rewarded in the end. That's not necessarily true anymore. We don't tell the truth about certain things. Young people see our hypocrisy. We haven't given them a model to follow.” PeopleLooksLongDoeEndsHardKidsAmericaRememberYoungLyingCertainGivenLinesWorryMissingHavensHard WorkModelsSellsHypocrisyTelling The TruthSpellsCheeseDishonestyDiscounts Author:Iyanla Vanzant
“I need a costume to be convinced that I'm somebody else. Otherwise, it's just me. It's just Amy saying lines. I haven't really become somebody else. And what's the fun in that?” NeedsFunLinesHavensConvincedCostumesAmy Author:Amy Sedaris
“It is vital that the United States maintains open lines of communication with our allies. We must assure them of our commitment to eradicating global terrorism wherever it may reside or wherever it's given haven” MayStatesGivenLinesUnitedUnited StatesHavensCommunicationCommitmentTerrorismAlliesLines Of Communication Author:George Allen
“I haven't been able to grasp the concept of putting your life on the line for whatever reason people go into the military for. Some people just want to pay their bills, some people believe in their country and some people do it because their parents did it, but that's rough.” PeopleWantBelieveCountryReasonAbleParentLinesPayMilitaryHavensConceptsBillsRough Author:Anthony Mackie
“You learn to do your best writing on story rather than off story. Very often at the beginning of their careers, writers including me do their best dialogue writing off story - the best lines, the best observations - but they haven't got enough to do with the plot to stay in.” WritingEnoughStoriesLinesCareersHavensIncludingDialogueObservationPlot Author:Victor Levin
“In China, because China is gaining wealth, rice consumption is way down. Rice is a poor person's food, and they're eating less of it. To wait in line at a fast food chain is cool. And they haven't historically had weight problems. So they don't have this culture of, "I need to lose weight."” WayNeedsPersonsProblemCultureWaitingLosesLinesWealthPoorHavensEatingWeightChinaChainsConsumptionRiceFast FoodLose WeightFood ChainWeight ProblemsEating Less Author:Neal Barnard
“Joyce's writing in Dubliners contains some of the most unshowily beautiful sentences in the English language. I learned from him that if you write a good, clean line of English, you can get under a reader's skin. The reader won't even know why, but there you are. Didion, Berger, the many others I mentioned above, and many, many poets I haven't mentioned. Writers of this calibre are the moving targets the rest of us are always chasing.” IfsKnowsWritingBeautifulMovingLanguageLinesHavensPoetReaderSkinsCleanSentencesTargetChasingEnglish LanguageJoyce Author:Teju Cole
“Advertising just keeps getting heavier and heavier and heavier. It doesn't have any natural limit, and we haven't found the place for the limit. And I think it's really important, therefore, that some of the revolts that are undergoing right now, you know, whether it's ad blockers or other things, are people trying to set some lines so that we say, you know, this far but no further. And this is where it ends.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingImportantEndsFoundNaturalLinesHavensRight NowLimitsAdvertisingAdsRevolt Author:Tim Wu