#favour

Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#clerk #faculty #favourite #frustration #get

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#age #anything #back #being #bombed

I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading. ↗

— Boris Becker

#favourite #go #great #i #just

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground. ↗

— Heywood Broun

#being #everybody #favours #free #free speech

I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism. ↗

— James Callaghan

#dealing #favour #i #i am #rather

To play someone I loved in my favourite fairytale as a kid is a total honour. ↗

— Lily Collins

#favourite #honour #i #kid #loved

I am much obliged by the favourable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service in carrying into execution your plans. ↗

— George Stephenson

#be happy #carrying #execution #express #favourable

The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#cedar #characters #chinese #contrive #favourite

I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated. ↗

— Valentino Garavani

#clothes #decade #exaggerated #fashion #favourite

Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite. ↗

— Alex D. Linz

#culture #every #favourite #humour #loves