#er

We have had for breakfast, toasts, cakes, a yorkshire pie, a piece of beef about the size and much the shape of my portmanteau, tea, coffee, ham and eggs... ↗

— Charles Dickens

#letters #food

Heights plummeted because of a little disaster called civilization. "Heights go way down when we go into state society," says Bogin. "When Egypt conquered the Nile area, the height of peasants fell dramatically. They moved from having access to a wide variety of foods to growing what the Egyptian state demanded. Their bones show lots of deficiencies in minerals and iron." The same stunting happened repeatedly throughout history. As late as the 1800s, male Cheyenne Indians, who hunted bison and collected berries, averaged a whopping 5'10", towering above even today's Americans, not to mention General Custer's cavalry, which averaged 5'7", and the period's wealthy European monarchies. ↗

— Arianne Cohen

#height #history #hunter-gatherer #food

…they speak great swelling words of emptiness… ↗

— 2 Peter 2 18

#food-for-thought #ible #peter #speaking #think-before-you-speak

I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#different #different things #first #got #had

I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars. ↗

— Johnny Weissmuller

#among #athletic #been #believed #competition

I do read movie blogs. I think what's really interesting - Probably everyone says this, but what's interesting is it, it takes away the power, from the newspaper magnates, so be it Murdoch or whatever. I mean, it's like the people taking it back. Isn't it? ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#back #blogs #everyone #i #i do

I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#advised #agent #american #change #i

I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#entertainer #i #storyteller

In therapy you sit down; in analysis you lie down. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#down #lie #sit #therapy #you

That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#being #director #down #easy #front