#eat

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30. ↗

— John Cusack

#before #being #being famous #caught #famous

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#civilized #earth #great #herman #literature

Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier. ↗

— Dick Dale

#amplifiers #blowing #creating #dale #father

You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation. ↗

— Dick Dale

#eat #fish #million #over #parts

A career in the theatre demands so much commitment. ↗

— Jim Dale

#commitment #demands #much #theatre

Does Ziploc make body bags? I’ll bet the corpses would stay fresher for longer if they did.
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— Jarod Kintz

#corpse #death #decomposing #decomposition #die

Finishing overall champion at the World Series in both the individual and synchro events has given me great confidence and I'm pleased I've been diving with consistency. ↗

— Tom Daley

#both #champion #confidence #consistency #diving

Learning about sex was a little bit like learning grammar. Every teacher you had assumed some other teacher taught you the year before, or the year before that, as if none of them wanted to talk about it, as if grammar was a bunch of dirty words. A massive silence surrounded dangling participles and infinite clauses, and you learned to fear making mistakes you didn't know how to avoid. ↗

— Ann E. Imbrie

#death

Child of the kindly West, I have come to know, if more of us valued your ways - food and cheer above hoarded gold - it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#parting #values-in-life #death

And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came down the years throbbing with memories of yesterday and with longing for tomorrow, for yesterday was death conquered and tomorrow was birth pursued. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#gibran #kahlil #death