#cho

Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#ages #always #avidly #between #black

Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#attention #attorney #because #board #city

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#ballot #both #choice #commonly #duty

I choose material instinctually - at the heart of it are characters that I feel are fresh and original, and allow for an opportunity to, I suppose, explore uncharted ground. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#characters #choose #explore #feel #fresh

This legislation gives parents some comfort that their children won't fall prey to child predators while using the Internet at schools and libraries that receive federal dollars for Internet services. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#children #comfort #dollars #fall #federal

Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#films #i #just #posters #see

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice. ↗

— Leon Kass

#choice #existence #our #owe #parents

Some men eat dinner with silverware. Some use chopsticks. I prefer zippers.  ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#dinner #eat #food #oral-sex #preference

Patience is both the tool for and the result of, our efforts. ↗