#etc

I am a pisces, a fish out of water, searching for a way back home. ↗

— James Kidd

#about #destiny #etc #fish #james

From the necks up... well, whoever said two heads are better than one never met a hydra. ↗

— Tera Lynn Childs

#hydra #mythology #mythology

I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc. ↗

— George Seaton

#aunt #autobiographies #clever #clever people #distinctly

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read. ↗

— Hannah More

#cannot #decreed #digs #fatigued #fed

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#english #haunted #holds #i #jokes

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. ↗

— Fridtjof Nansen

#keep #line #never #retreat #wretched

Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#built #courses #doing #etc #golf

The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses. ↗

— George Oppen

#away #carefully #etc #left #masses

You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#bow #break #keep #soon #stretched

I think it would take a real stretch to think that I caused the problems with the economy. ↗

— Harry Reid

#economy #i #i think #problems #real