“We're kind of a geeky tech family. When I married Ronda's dad, instead of an engagement ring he got me an engagement Macintosh.”

— AnnMaria De Mars

Quoted in "Rousey Is 1st U.S. Woman to Earn A Medal in Judo", in The Washington Post (14 August 2008) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/13/AR2008081303517.html

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American judoka 1958

Linda Howard book To Die For

Source: To Die For

“Your system is not your tech - it's the nature of the content & the behavior w/which you engage with it.”

David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author

26 June 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/17062938246 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“He has married me with a ring, a ring of bright water
Whose ripples spread from the heart of the sea,
He has married me with a ring of light, the glitter
Broadcast on the swift river.”

Kathleen Raine (1908–2003) poet, critic, translator

Source: Poem The Marriage of Psyche

“I love being engaged, but I don’t really have a desire to get married, I always felt like marriage should be more of a reward… For surviving your relationship… I feel everyone’s got it backwards”

Liv Tyler (1977) American actress, producer and former model

Liv Tyler is the October cover https://www.tatler.com/article/liv-tyler-october-2019-cover-star (August 30, 2019)

“As of yesterday, my son became engaged to be married to his partner, Magnus Bane”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Is it him?” Dad asked. “Did he get you into trouble?”
“Not me,” Shane said. “I’ve just got that kind of face.”

Rachel Caine book Glass Houses

Source: Glass Houses

“He found me fascinating, in a wounded-bird kind of way. I found him wonderful, in a lifeline kind of way. It was mutual need that passed for love, and got married.”

Sarah Zettel (1966) American writer

Source: Bitter Angels (2009), Chapter 1 (p. 9)

“We're going to have to make it clear that we don't want to use the kinds of tools that we have. We don't want to engage in a different kind of warfare. But we will defend the citizens of this country.”

Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)

“What puzzles me most is your criticism that he showed 'no sense of engagement.”

E.M. Forster (1879–1970) English novelist

I haven't met the expression before, and feel bound to comment on its totalitarian tang. Engagement not with the truth as the speaker apprehends it, but with the alleged opinion of the majority of listeners.
Letter 400, to John Morris, 12 January 1953
Selected Letters (1983-1985)

“To be alone with the girl to whom he is not engaged, is a man's delight; — to be alone with the man to whom she is engaged is the woman's.”

Anthony Trollope book The Eustace Diamonds

The Eustace Diamonds, Ch. 18

“We're kind of a geeky tech family. When I married Ronda's dad, instead of an engagement ring he got me an engagement Macintosh.”

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