#gh

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#i #martyrdom #postponed #preferred #prepared

Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#body #connection #contagion #could #detained

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#brought #contempt #drunk #get #i

In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#bought #first #silhouette #summer

We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#enlightened #hope #self-interest #spirit #will

I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#could #french #horrific #i #imaginative

As an improviser, I always find it jarring when I meet someone in real life whose first answer is no. “No, we can’t do that.” “No, that’s not in the budget.” “No, I will not hold your hand for a dollar.” What kind of way is that to live? ↗

— Tina Fey

#life

I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#amazes #certain #chapters #characters #conscious thought

Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#after #arrow #bow #couple #good

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#black #contained #ever #experience #father