#eater

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics. ↗

— David Lloyd George

#decks #ever #find #greater #piracy

When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner. ↗

— Vince Cable

#cannot #child #cooked #eat #eater

The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#get #greater #late #pressures #right

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#career #cry #i #laugh #make

As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#clicked #could #exciting #i #new

I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#black #different #greater #i #imagine

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego. ↗

— John Cheever

#excellent #good #greater #hundred #latitude

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. ↗

— Henry Clay

#competition #greater #human #human powers #mankind

I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater. ↗

— Jill Clayburgh

#dressing #dressing room #feels #i #like

My favorite venues are the 2,000 seat theaters, like the Warfield. If there was a Warfield in every city, I would play it. That's all I would do. I love venues like that. ↗

— Les Claypool

#every #favorite #i #i love #like