#ff

As a Republican, I voted with President Clinton consistently in our efforts to bail out our European friends in Kosovo to stop genocide. I am proud of those votes. I am proud of President Clinton for that. ↗

— Gordon Smith

#bail #clinton #consistently #efforts #european

There is, after all, no moral difference between the bigot and the tolerator. They are from case to case positive or negative. One man is bigoted because he was given the sword of truth, another because he is angered in thoughtlessness; then, one man is tolerant because he was given the flag of peace, another because he is cowardly and wishes to hide all guilt. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bigotry #cowardice #differentiation #flag #guilt

It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow. ↗

— Mel Smith

#business #centre #comedy #cow #end

There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off. ↗

— Robert Smith

#completely #did #down #doze #hope

Anger - a better alternative to caffeine. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#caffeine #anger

It is my trade," he said. "I work for the bean family, and every day there are deaths among the beans, mostly from thirst. They shrivel and die, they go blind in their one black eye, and I put them in one of these tiny coffins. Beans, you know, are beautifully shaped, like a new church, like modern architecture, like a planned city ↗

— Janet Frame

#bean #beans #church #city #coffin

The kitchen is the real office of the house. The most important business is carried out across the counter, with none of the anarchy of cubicle architecture. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #kitchens #offices #architecture

I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It's an escape. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#escape #everybody #fascinating #find #i

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#gardening #self-sufficiency #art

Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you ↗

— Ginnetta Correli

#failure #life #suffering #writing #art