#ditch

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#apple #boxes #ditch #else #everybody

Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#african #came #definitely #ditch #east

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#could #desert #ditch #full #grass

We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#course #ditch #down #london #street

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#ditch #hard #i #know #labor

I've had an unbelievable life. I've been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I'm from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, 'That's real work.' ↗

— Liam Neeson

#been #building #create #digging #ditch

If we know we're just going to have sex and then ditch the guy, it can be fun. ↗

— Rachel Perry

#fun #going #guy #just #know

We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim. ↗

— Jane Powell

#attractive #being #being strong #ditch #idea

You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#better #cannot #car #choice #ditch

We own the economy. We own the beginning of the turnaround and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery, not go back to the policies of the past under the Bush administration that put us in the ditch in the first place. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#back #beginning #bush #bush administration #continue