#ashe

There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes. ↗

— Ian Botham

#battling #countries #exciting #more #nothing

Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#down #every #feeling #five #had

I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt. ↗

— Edie Falco

#being #dirt #fell #held #i

I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#dishwasher #function #i #sheets #well

I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God. ↗

— Frances Farmer

#bath #between #clean #cool #could

Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#city #does #existence #had #hiroshima

Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#atomic #burned #centre #except #explosion

The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible. ↗

— Colin Farrell

#baby #first #first time #hold #i

Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides. ↗

— Ferdowsi

#arrows #between #blows #descended #fierce

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances. ↗

— Iris Chang

#certain #circumstances #dangerous #evil #only