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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3225ee3 | He said it in languages he knew he need not include, Serbo-Croation and Cantonese, just because there was comfort in speaking and no one tried to stop him. 'Stand up,' is not a message that needed translation in the first place. People are sheep about certain things. When some begin to stand, the rest will follow. | Ann Patchett | ||
| e732490 | Only Mr. Hosokawa and the priest completely understood the importance of the music. Every note was distinct. It was the measurement of the time which had gotten away from them. It was the interpretation of their lives in the very moment they were being lived. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 13788bf | He wondered now if everyone had a private life. He wondered if his wife had one. It was possible that all those years he had been alone, never knowing that a complete world existed and no one spoke of it. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 80ae28e | There were some people who had the ability to tell other people what was worth wanting, | Ann Patchett | ||
| 2098572 | There was also the time that competitors were asked to submit a paragraph of a Graham Greene parody: Greene himself entered under a pseudonym and placed third. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| e55a3ee | Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride. | Ali | ||
| 502cebe | He who is deserted by friends and relatives will often find help and sympathy from strangers. | Ali | ||
| 484d71f | One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death. | Ali | ||
| a8e042a | Often your utterances and expressions of your face leak out the secrets of your hidden thoughts. | Ali | ||
| 98a09b2 | Hearts of people are like wild beasts. They attach themselves to those who love and train them. | Ali | ||
| 5e5d809 | There is a moment when a man thinks he's going to die when he's terrified," Drizzt replied. "Then there is a moment when a man is sure he's going to die when he's outraged. That moment, upon the Luskar right now, is the time of greatest courage and the time when enemies should quiver in fear." | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| e454435 | But when she put her fingers into the water and pulled a marble out, it was small by comparison with those still in the glass, and unimportant, too. It was like the difference between what you long for and what you find--the difference, for instance, between Arthur's image of war and his experience of it. It was like other times, her own and Miss Agnes' proper childhood times that seemed so near to her memory and yet so far away. It was lik.. | Penelope Farmer | ||
| 44053f7 | Charlotte believed in ghosts, for after all, she had been a kind of ghost herself. | Penelope Farmer | ||
| a7985d4 | So long as fortune is favouring you, your defects will remain covered. | Ali | ||
| 54aeef8 | Only he who has the power to punish can pardon. | Ali | ||
| e8d7207 | Wealth converts a strange land into homeland and poverty turns a native place into a strange land. | Ali | ||
| 71402f9 | Contentment is the capital which will never diminish. | Ali | ||
| 412acb6 | Meddlers, both, we be, and always with the hope that our meddling will leave in our wake a more beautiful tapestry than that we first encountered. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 2a49f39 | Wealth is the fountain head of passions. | Ali | ||
| 885d7e3 | Whoever warns you against sins and vices is like the one who gives you good tidings. | Ali | ||
| 6684d99 | Seize the moment and seize the day. Revel in the joy and fight all the harder against despair. I | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| efa3d98 | Tongue is a beast, if it is let loose, it devours. | Ali | ||
| ef4c83f | A virtuous person is better than virtue and a vicious person is worse than vice. | Ali | ||
| 6129a25 | Every breath you take is a step towards death. | Ali | ||
| c051522 | Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings. | Ali | ||
| 64920a8 | Anyone who loves us Ahlul Bayt must be ready to face a life of austerity. | Ali | ||
| d668a4c | And the hot new things that were just starting out--Facebook and Twitter--certainly did not look like their predecessors--Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Sun Microsystems--that made physical products and employed tens of thousands of people in the process. In the years that followed, the goal went from taking huge risks to create new industries and grand new ideas, to chasing easier money by entertaining consumers and pumping out simple apps and ad.. | Ashlee Vance | ||
| 2bdf057 | Swicord is not a New Age nut; she's a writer. And even after mega-wrangles with Mattel's management--the musical was sketched out but never produced--she is still a fan of the doll. "Barbie," she said, "is bigger than all those executives. She has lasted through many regimes. She's lasted through neglect. She's survived the feminist backlash. In countries where they don't even sell makeup or have anything like our dating rituals, they play .. | M.G. Lord | ||
| 0c391c5 | Fans of conspiracy theories will be disappointed to learn that Barbie's proportions were not the result of some misogynistic plot. They were dictated by the mechanics of clothing construction. The doll is one-sixth the size of a person, but the fabrics she wears are scaled for people. Barbie's middle, her first designer explained, had to be disproportionately narrow to look proportional in clothes. The inner seam on the waistband of a skirt.. | M.G. Lord | ||
| f85e20f | When Ella King Torrey, a friend of mine and consultant on this book, began researching Barbie at Yale University in 1979, her work was considered cutting-edge and controversial. | M.G. Lord | ||
| 5ad4624 | Gilles Brougere, a French sociologist, has conducted an exhaustive study of French women and children to determine how different age groups perceive the doll. | M.G. Lord | ||
| acd8fbc | This underscores another pattern in Barbie's universe. People project fears and prejudices onto her; when a person talks at length about Barbie, one usually learns more about the speaker than about the doll. | M.G. Lord | ||
| fbf7f29 | The company has no archive. This may help conceal its embarrassments, but it has also buried its achievements--such as subsidizing Shindana Toys in response to the 1965 Watts riots. The African-American-run, South Central Los Angeles--based company produced ethnically correct playthings long before they were fashionable. | M.G. Lord | ||
| 306ff68 | The second time, Michael Milken galloped to the rescue. "I believed in Barbie," Milken told Barbara Walters in 1993. "I called up the head of Mattel and I told him that I personally would be willing to invest two hundred million dollars in his company. There's more Barbie dolls in this country than there are people." | M.G. Lord | ||
| be0fb70 | Toys have always said a lot about the culture that produced them, and especially about how that culture viewed its children. | M.G. Lord | ||
| bd1874e | It is with an eye toward using objects to understand ourselves that I beg Barbie's knee-jerk defenders and knee-jerk revilers to cease temporarily their defending and reviling. Barbie is too complicated for either an encomium or an indictment. But we will not refrain from looking under rocks. | M.G. Lord | ||
| a9dd58e | Through their play," Ruth said, Barbara and her friends "were imagining their lives as adults. They were using the dolls to reflect the adult world around them. They would sit and carry on conversations, making the dolls real people. I used to watch that over and over and think: If only we could take this play pattern and three-dimensionalize it, we would have something very special." | M.G. Lord | ||
| 39dbcf7 | There is enough light for one who wants to see. | Ali | ||
| a8976f3 | AS STRATEGY SESSIONS BEGAN IN HAWTHORNE, THE Handlers made a brilliant tactical move. They commissioned a toy study from Ernest Dichter, Ph.D., director of the Institute for Motivational Research in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. The study cost a staggering $12,000 and took six months to complete, but when it was finished the charge seemed low. Dichter had masterminded a cunning campaign to peddle Barbie. Dichter was already a legend when the .. | M.G. Lord | ||
| aa947b8 | Convince Mom that Barbie will make a "poised little lady" out of her raffish, unkempt, possibly boyish child. Underscore the outfits' detailing, and the way it might teach a roughneck to accessorize. Remind Mom what she believes deep down but dares not express: Better her daughter should appeal in a sleazy way to a man than be unable to attract one at all." | M.G. Lord | ||
| 673a6b2 | The positioning from the very first commercial was that she was a person," said Schneider. "We never mentioned the fact that she was a doll." | M.G. Lord | ||
| 42c158e | Because neither Ruth nor Charlotte was a housewife. Barbie, from the outset, worked--at both dream and humdrum jobs. She served drinks to thankless travelers as an American Airlines stewardess and emptied bedpans as a registered nurse. | M.G. Lord | ||
| d2829f5 | Barbie Baby-Sits" appeared in 1963, a year after the publication of Helen Gurley Brown's best-selling Sex and the Single Girl. And whether it was Brown's influence or an effect of synchronicity, Barbie began to resemble Brown's happily unmarried woman." | M.G. Lord | ||
| b9e390f | Barbie's similarity to Brown's brave, new, vaguely selfish and decidedly subversive heroine has more than whimsical ramifications. It | M.G. Lord |