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“If you are one of the hewers of wood and drawers of small weekly paychecks, your letters will have to contain some few items of news or they will be accounted dry stuff.... But if you happen to be of a literary turn of mind, or are, in any way, likely to become famous, you may settle down to an afternoon of letter-writing on nothing more sprightly in the way of news than the shifting of the wind from south to south-east.”

Ifs Way Writing Mind May Happens Turns Stuff Wind Fame News Letters South Woods East Settling Dry Afternoon Items Shifting Drawers Paychecks Settling Down Letter Writing

Author:Robert Benchley

“The idea of a series of items, following one another docilely, forms the only possible reasonable approach to life if you have to live it with a home and a husband and children, none of whom would dream of following one another docilely.”

Ifs Children Ideas Home Dream Form Husband Approach Series Following Reasonable Items

Book:Life Among the Savages

Source: Life Among the Savages

“All of women's aspirations--whether for education, work, or any form of self-determination--ultimately rest on their ability to decide whether and when to bear children. For this reason, reproductive freedom has always been the most popular item in each of the successive feminist agendas--and the most heavily assaulted target of each backlash.”

Children Self Reason Form Ability Bears Determination Feminist Aspiration Agendas Target Self Determination Items Backlash

Book:Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

“The determination of the value of an item must not be based on its price, but rather on the utility it yields. The price of the item is dependent only on the thing itself and is equal for everyone; the utility, however, is dependent on the particular circumstances of the person making the estimate. Thus there is no doubt that a gain of one thousand ducats is more significant to a pauper than to a rich man though both gain the same amount.”

Men Persons Values Money Rich Doubt Particular Amount Circumstances Thousand Equal Gains Determination Significant No Doubt Dependent Yield Items Utility Rich Man

Author:Daniel Bernoulli

“This is a good world. We need not approve of all the items in it, nor of all the individuals in it; but the world itself-which is more than its parts or individuals; which has a soul, a spirit, a fundamental relation to each of us deeper than all other relations-is a friendly world.”

World Needs Soul Spirit Individual Relation Fundamentals Deeper Friendly Items

Book:Greater South Africa: plans for a better world

Source: Greater South Africa: plans for a better world

“Then, finally, the third year, begging the parents, I got the Superman Halloween costume. Cardboard box, self-made top, mask included. Remember the rubber band on the back of that mask? That was a quality item there, wasn't it? That was good for about 10 seconds before it snapped out of that cheap little staple they put it in there with.”

Years Littles Made Self Remember Parent Quality Band Thirds Boxes Mask Seconds Halloween Costumes Items Begging Rubber Self Made Staples Rubber Bands Cardboard Boxes Halloween Costume

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn. This goes for the nonfood items as well: Everything from the toothpaste and cosmetics to the disposable diapers, trash bags, cleansers, charcoal briquettes, matches, and batteries, right down to the shine on the cover of the magazine that catches your eye by the checkout: corn.”

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

“Whatever girl you are, every girl needs a really killer peg skirt in her closet. I don't care who you are. If you're the bohemian and you're wearing your big boyfriend sweater you need a peg skirt to reclaim your body. If you were the movie star, you might wear that with the push up tank like we have in the spring collection. It's all about body, body body. If you're the power player you put a jacket over that and work it that way. That item is for every girl, and every boy appreciated her in it.”

“Freudism and all it has tainted with its grotesque implications and methods, appear to me to be one of the vilest deceits practiced by people on themselves and on others. I reject it utterly, along with a few other medieval items still adored by the ignorant, the conventional, or the very sick.”

People Stills Sick Method Ignorant Deceit Rejects Conventional Items Medieval Implications Grotesque Tainted

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“They called me Veto Corleone. Because I vetoed 2,500 separate line-items in the budget.”

Lines Budgets Items Veto Corleone

Author:Jeb Bush

“People love buying into a lifestyle and an overall concept. So when they buy a shell-colored lip gloss, they can also buy shells for their house, as well as sunglasses and [items in] other categories [in that shade] to create one consistent image.”

People Wells House Concepts Lips Lifestyle Buying Consistent Categories Shade Shells Items Sunglasses Red Lips Gloss Lip Gloss

Author:Aerin Lauder

“The first item I designed for a real person was when I was about 10 and I made my first item of clothing for myself.”

Firsts Persons Made Real Clothings Items Real Person

Author:Karen Walker

“A handbag is only one item to be worn with a complete outfit. Add a peony pink leather handbag to a charcoal gray suit, for instance, and the impact is chic with a touch of wit.”

Impact Add Wit Instance Suits Gray Worn Items Leather Chic Handbags Charcoal Peonies

Author:Kate Spade

“Taxicabs might seem like a luxury item, and given the profound needs of so many disabled people in New York, why would we bother with taxis? I contend that even if you need a taxi once a year - there are times when you need a taxi.”

People Ifs Needs Years Seems Might Given New York Profound Luxury Bother Items Disabled Taxi Luxury Items

Author:Simi Linton

“I try to focus less on the actual items and more on the way they make me feel. I like color around my face because it does something to me emotionally. I don't like to wear black because it brings me down.”

Way Feels Trying Doe Faces Black Focus Color Items Bring Me Down

Author:Nicole Richie

“Frankly, from my perspective, the bomber jacket is such a classic item you can wear it even when it's not on trend.”

Perspective Classic Trends Items Jackets Bombers

Author:Tim Gunn

“So I was in Tesco's and I saw this man and woman wrapped in a barcode. I said "Are you two an item?"”

Men Said Two Humor Funny Saws Men And Women Items Tesco

Author:Tommy Cooper

“Although in society in general, the idea of an Irish composer of 'classical music', or whatever you want to call it, is still a strange item, generally speaking. Even in the arts, among our fellow creative artists in other disciplines, you still feel slightly out of it.”

Want Feels Art Stills Ideas Artist Creative Strange Discipline Fellows Composer Items Classical Music Creative Art Creative Artists

Author:John Kinsella

“I do a lot of to-dos and a lot of lists. I realized I had to make room for joy. So I added "to feel" items on my to-do list. That's something you can easily do.”

Feels Joy Rooms Lists I Realized Items

Author:Bonnie St. John

“Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of three paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a collectors' item in its own way - not because of any special artistic quality, but because each captures on a canvas, and suspends in time and space, a frozen moment of a nightmare.”

Way Firsts Art Moments Three Space Quality Special Painting First Time Welcome Evening Artistic Nightmare Capture Canvas Frozen Time And Space Items Collectors Good Evening

Author:Rod Serling

“Assuming that a tax increase is necessary, it is clearly preferable to impose the additional cost on land by increasing the land tax, rather than to increase the wage tax - the two alternatives open to the City (of Pittsburgh). It is the use and occupancy of property that creates the need for the municipal services that appear as the largest item in the budget - fire and police protection, waste removal, and public works. The average increase in tax bills of city residents will be about twice as great with wage tax increase than with a land tax increase.”

“A bird, music and food -desert island items”

Bird Desert Islands Items

Author:Michael Johnson

“Thus, in a dialogue each person does not attempt to make common certain ideas or items of information that are already known to him. Rather, it can be said that collectively they are making something in common”

Persons Doe Said Ideas Certain Common Known Information Dialogue Items

Author:David Bohm

“I was smart enough to know it would probably make me a salable item for the paparazzi. I knew I'd have to move to a home that had a gate. But that pearl of possibility that lives in your heart when you meet somebody you want to know more about has such a different molecular density than everything else that you have to pursue it.”

Knows Want Heart Different Enough Home Moving Possibility Smart Pursue Gates Pearls Items Paparazzi Density

Author:John Mayer

“The sign said "eight items or less". So I changed my name to Les.”

Said Humor Funny Names Changed Eight Items

Author:Steven Wright

“To a newspaperman, a human being is an item with skin wrapped around it.”

Humans Human Beings Skins Items

Author:Fred Allen

“At a certain point, I stopped seeing my clothing worn by people on the streets . . . It seemed like they were being treated as museum items.”

People Certain Seeing Streets Treated Museums Clothings Worn Items

Author:Yohji Yamamoto

“I realized that I wasn't naturally born to good taste. I understand what it is, but I am happy to wear bright colors. I do have a few items of black clothing, but I think good taste and doing the same thing over and over again is what the whole art world has become.”

Thinking World Art Whole Black Born Color Taste I Realized Clothings Items Good Taste Art World Bright Colors

Author:Jim Shaw

“The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.”

Two Witty Sunshine Milk Cowboy Items Coconuts

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“I believe that a religious conversion is the only way to stimulate the peoples of the industrialized nations to be willing to make sacrifices for the sake of esho funi (the oneness of self and environment). ... I wish the entire world would accept as an item of religious faith the concept of esho funi and its moral obligations.”

World Way Believe Self I Believe Nations Wish Religious Accepting Moral Environment Sacrifice Willing Concepts Sake Conversion Obligation Oneness Items Religious Faith Moral Obligation

Author:Arnold J. Toynbee

“At the World Cup, there is a constant risk that you might find a bag or some object that has been left behind, and no one is quite sure what it is. To bring in a full bomb-disposal team for each item can be very time-consuming. The PackBot can go over rough terrain, climb stairs, pick things up, and also be operated from a safe distance.”

World Has Beens Might Left Behinds Risk Team Objects Safe Picks Constant Distance Cups Bombs Climbs Bags Rough Items Left Behind Consuming Stairs World Cup Terrain Time Consuming

Author:Colin Angle

“That's precisely the reason we need less paper and more concrete political decisions - the protection of endangeres species is not some luxury item by Gucci or Hermès, for people who have no problems.”

People Needs Reason Problem Political Decision Paper Species Protection Luxury Concrete No Problem Items Gucci Political Decisions Luxury Items

Author:Klaus Topfer

“Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body-different from one another and each contributing what no other could.”

Thinking Humans Different Body Individual Christianity Groups Members Mere Lists Organs Items Contributing

Book:Mere Christianity

Source: Mere Christianity

“Birdscapes moves rather like those swallows, dipping and swerving to pick up all sorts of items of interest. Mynott tells plenty of good birding tales, but these serve mainly to set off trains of reflection. . . . Reading Birdscapes is like going birding with a learned, witty, and somewhat irreverent companion who isn't satisfied just to check things off. . . . [D]elightful to read on a journey or a housebound day, and [opens] fascinating new horizons for anyone who wants to enlarge his or her interest in birds.”

Want Moving Reading Interest Journey Bird Picks Reflection Train Witty Satisfied Checks Tales Plenty Fascinating Companion Horizon Items Irreverent New Horizons

Author:Robert O. Paxton

“The manufacturing of most goods harms the environment in one way or another. The culprit is not the factory, but it is we who buy what it produces. Therefore we should think carefully about items we purchase.”

Thinking Way Should Environment Produce Harm One Way Goods Factories Items Manufacturing Culprit

Author:Amy Dacyczyn

“Adventurous men enjoy shipwrecks, mutinies, earthquakes, conflagrations, and all kinds of unpleasant experiences. They say to themselves, for example, 'So this is what an earthquake is like,' and it gives them pleasure to have their knowledge of the world increased by this new item.”

Men World Giving Kind Enjoy Pleasure Example All Kinds Items Adventurous Earthquakes Shipwreck Knowledge Of The World Mutiny Unpleasant Experiences

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“People used to think I was so strange because my toiletry bag used to contain so many grooming items and cosmetics and stuff. But I think it's more acceptable these day for guys to take care of themselves.”

People Thinking Care Used Guy Stuff Strange Take Care These Days Bags Acceptable Items Cosmetics Grooming

Author:Nick Youngquest

“People used to think I was so strange because my toiletry bag used to contain so many grooming items and cosmetics and stuff. But I think it's more acceptable these day for guys to take care of themselves. I think it's becoming more commonplace, not just for sportsmen, but for all guys to take care of themselves. Taking care of yourself is a nice thing to do. It's not seen as just a girl thing anymore. You see a lot more guys at the gym taking care of themselves, and I think it's going to continue to grow.”

“I always carry around a giant makeup case with about fifteen items in it. I so want to be the girl who just carries lipstick as if that's all I need, but I'm just not that girl. I need my lipstick, but then, just in case my cheeks start to lose their color, I need my blush. Then I'll need my oil pads...so I just take the whole thing. And now I need a full on fashionable backpack for it all!”

Ifs Want Needs Whole Girl Loses Cases Color Oil Giants Makeup Carrie Cheeks Fifteen Items Fashionable Lipstick That Girl Pads

Author:Analeigh Tipton

“Of course, if you think of a European or American household in the '50s, so what were the things that when people started climbing up the ladder, what did they buy? A fridge, a TV, I think piano was the number three item in say '53 or '54.”

People Ifs Thinking Three Courses Numbers Tvs Piano Climbing Household Items Ladders Fridges Climbing Up Number Three Climbing Up The Ladder

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“Our focus is on the forward end of things: the customer and what does he want to do? If you're buying underwear and household items ladders and everything else - I buy all sorts of stuff on Amazon Prime - why shouldn't I buy this? Any legal document, contract or otherwise, that prevents me from doing that, I don't want to be a part of.”

Ifs Want Doe Ends Stuff Focus Customers Buying Prime Contracts Household Documents Items Ladders Underwear Amazon

Author:Gerry Lopez

“Stuffwise we are not a lean operation. We're the kind of people who, if we were deciding what absolute minimum essential items we'd need to carry in our backpacks for the final, treacherous ascent to the summit of Mount Everest, would take along aquarium filters, just in case.”

People Ifs Needs Kind Cases Essentials Absolutes Finals Operations Minimum Items Summit Filters Treacherous Everest Ascent Aquariums Mount Everest

Book:Dave Barry Talks Back

Source: Dave Barry Talks Back

“Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen.”

Ifs Art Made Found Chance Creation Objects Ready Mass Separation Fountain Sculpture Items Miraculous Commonplace Abolish Art And Life Found Objects

Author:Charles Simic

“Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the hard work of selecting and shaping a readable story.”

Hard Stories Found Stuff Subjects Hard Work Research Historian Telephones Items Shoelaces

Author:Barbara Tuchman

“Guys kick friendship all over just like a soccer, nonetheless it does not appear to crack. Girls deal with it like glass and it goes to items.”

Doe Guy Girl Deals Glasses Soccer Kicks Cracks Items

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The absolute necessity to create a proper Earth government' - we should inscribe this as the priority item on the agenda of world affairs.”

World Should Government Earth Absolutes Affair Priorities Agendas Items World Affairs

Author:Robert Muller

“The key to becoming a more efficient leader isn't checking off all the items on your to-do list each day. It's in forming the habit of prioritizing your time so that you are accomplishing your most important goals in an efficient manner.”

Important Goal Leader Keys Becoming Habit Lists Each Day Efficient Items Prioritize

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Wine represents to me sharing and good times and a celebration of life. It is always around happy occasions with family and friends and centered around joy. What better item to be involved in then something that represents all these wonderful things.”

Joy Wonderful Involved Wine Occasions Good Times Celebration Family And Friends Wonderful Things Items Celebration Of Life

Author:Dan Aykroyd

“Beautiful and familiar objects can help us to feel better. Photos of family and friends, which remind us of the people we love and who love us, are important mood-lifters. Items that inspire us or encourage periods of reflection do the same.”

People Feels Important Helping Beautiful Objects Inspire Periods Reflection Mood Familiar Feel Better Family And Friends Items

Book:Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness

Source: Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness

“And my first item on each day's list is this: Wake up. If I can check that off, I've already done something and can get on with the business of living and trying to honor the memory of those I love who are no longer here.”

Ifs Trying Firsts I Can Done Memories Honor Wake Up Lists Checks Each Day Items

Author:Will Schwalbe

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