A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
Raymond Chandler
Recitation: by Male by Female
Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot... I've seen all these marriages that failed. Those people are always hollering at each other. That doesn't work.
Jim Harrison
WorkMarriageDayCookingTogether
Make no mistake: I will work with both Democrats and Republicans to cut wasteful spending and reduce our debt in a balanced, responsible way.
Ann McLane Kuster
WorkMistakeDebtWillWayCut
Business leaders should provide expertise in service of our country. My predecessors at GE have done so, as have leaders of many other great American companies.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
BusinessGreatServiceAmericanDone
In the movie 'Wall Street' I play Gordon Gekko, a greedy corporate executive who cheated to profit while innocent investors lost their savings. The movie was fiction, but the problem is real.
Michael Douglas
ProblemWallProfitInnocentPlay
I've never been heckled. I think because I look too small and vulnerable. Sometimes I look out into the audience and see pity in their eyes, so I guess those people may be the ones who would shout something out if they didn't feel so sorry for me.
Amy Hoggart
EyesPeopleMeSmallSorryThink
Like all paradises, Topanga is pitched at the tipping point of promise and peril.
Steve Erickson
PointPromiseLikePerilTipping
You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.
Tom Goodman-Hill
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After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.
Mary Cheney
OfficeViceWhereGetBeenJust
Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
YesterdayWillContinueThem
Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.
Jose Saramago
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I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
Diane Ackerman
LifeWantMy OwnOwnPassenger
When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
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