#ding

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. ↗

— Mark Twain

#concealing #consists #good #good breeding #how

I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. I'm the opposite. Inside my head I'd be like, God, I'll explain to you at the end of shooting that I'm not this person. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#anybody #because #cars #character #doing

I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air. ↗

— Shania Twain

#arms #breathing #climbed #feel #giant

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. ↗

— John Barton

#conversation #entered #inspired #into #other

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized! ↗

— Roland Barthes

#clearly #deal #ending #entire #great

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#each #ill #luck #misunderstanding #never

When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens. ↗

— Gary Bauer

#back #citizens #criminal #hurting #law-abiding

Let me tell you - when I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble. You don't think about breaking records anymore, you don't think about gaining scientific data - the only thing that you want is to come back alive. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#alive #anymore #back #become #breaking

Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#both #college #grammar #grammar school #margaret

People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#finish #happened #how #i #important