#aid

So I rang up my local swimming baths. I said 'Is that the local swimming baths?' He said 'It depends where you're calling from.' ↗

— Tim Vine

#calling #depends #i #local #rang

When I'd finished, everybody said they wanted me for this movie. At first I thought they meant a nudie flick since an awful lot of nudies are made in Houston. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#everybody #finished #first #flick #houston

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#democracy #get #guess #head #i

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#beyond #chain #civilization #ends #enter

My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#coach #cooper #drama #gary #gary cooper

Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#blocks #carried #doing #expectancy #i

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#doubt #get #older #out #running

Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#events #happenings #mental #passive #said

I've always said that with kids' TV that people get stuck in it from drama school but that's not fair because I know myself that when you go in creatively, kids are so much more open to ideas. You're so much freer to mess about and try things. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#always #because #creatively #drama #drama school

My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#afraid #been #community #driving #faith