#ff

Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child. ↗

— Martin Bashir

#child #coverage #did #difficult #him

Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#cents #course #grain #hated #hemingway

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. ↗

— John Berger

#psychology #suffering #experience

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#art #done #effort #evil #fate

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#cemetery #drum #funeral #graves #heart

I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#buildings #highest #i #jumped #off

I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#better off #born #came #country #despised

I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're not so interesting. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#difference #feeling #found #get #i

I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned. ↗

— Michael Bay

#always #feel #funny #funny stuff #i

There are things that I invented - the creaky geriatric robot that is always grumpy, for example, or the little wheelie guy, he's not in the Hasbro lore. But kids love that stuff - this little guy as a pet on a chain. They gravitate towards it. ↗

— Michael Bay

#chain #example #for example #geriatric #gravitate