#bloody

For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country. ↗

— Reginald Maudling

#bloody #bring #country #god #large

I had crashes when I was small and Gumby-like that would have killed me now. I would just fly off jumps and go 40 or 50 meters when I was 6 years old - break skis, smash my goggles and get a bloody nose and go crawl inside for a little while and then come back out and ski more in the afternoon. ↗

— Bode Miller

#back #bloody #break #come #crashes

Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#eat #food #fork #fresh #fresh food

I can smell the smoke now. I can see tendrils of it comin' up between the cracks in the shrikin' floorboards. There she is, calmly taking down the framed examples of fine embroideries, samplers, and needlework from teh hallway wall and tucking them under her arm. "Mistress! Come on! You've got to leave!" She calmly turns and faces me. "Why?" she asks. "The British are coming?" "Only one, Mistress," I say ↗

— L.A. Meyer

#british #humor #pirates #humor

But surely we are not allowed..." "Allowed?" I counters. "We're allowed to do anything in this world until someone says we ain't allowed and that someone can back it up. ↗

— L.A. Meyer

#inspirational #jacky-faber #inspirational

As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed. ↗

— William Greider

#cleansed #democracy #designed #finest #humiliation

Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#adult #bloody #books #children #complex

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#bloody #buzzard #confounded #even #hawk

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#better #bloody #find #going #had

You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#bloody #civil #civil war #full #hatred