A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
Robert Baden-Powell
Recitation: by Male by Female
The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.
Joan D. Vinge
WorldRunOutSystemOwnWeight
I looked at the circus, and I looked at the carnival, at the fun fair. But I looked at sleeping accommodations and decided I was too middle class to put up with that! So then I joined the theater and found I could choose my own bedroom. I loved the atmosphere. I loved that we worked till midnight and didn't start till ten.
Jeremy Irons
FunStartLovedChooseCircusClass
Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects.
Anita Hill
TalkingUncomfortableSexWantWay
'The Prince's blunt candor has been a scandal for 500 years. The book was placed on the Papal Index of banned books in 1559, and its author was denounced on the Elizabethan stages of London as the 'Evil Machiavel.' The outrage has not dimmed with time.
Michael Ignatieff
TimeEvilBookLondonYearsBlunt
Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.
Stewart Copeland
MusicHandsSellingMarketBeen
The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.
Tony Hillerman
GreatCollegeWinGraduationBack
My parents are very lovely people - the sort of people that one should aspire to be like, really.
Tom Hollander
ParentsPeopleLovelyAspireLike
If nobody trusts you as president, then you can't get anything done.
Robert Dallek
YouNobodyDonePresidentAnything
I am certainly Italian in my love of food! I eat everything, but I love Italian food most of all. Even my daughter does. Her favourite food is pasta and parmigiana.
Monica Bellucci
LoveDaughterFoodI AmPastaEat
Make a list of the people in your 'choir'... If you're not on your own list, then you're doing something wrong.
Lisa Lampanelli
PeopleDoingYouWrongChoirOwn
The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.
Jon Meacham
TimeGovernmentLimitsAcceptTask
If you compare Everest photographs in 1953 with its current state, things are melting. I imagine if I were a golfer in Indiana, I'd be hard-pressed to believe in climate change because nothing's going on there. But when you're up in the mountains and seeing the glaciers melt away, it's an obvious physical manifestation of a warming planet.
Conrad Anker
ChangeMountainsBelieveYouSeeing
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