#ground

I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground. ↗

— Jane Badler

#artists #feel #few #few things #get

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#degree #good #ground #like #love

Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn't go far didn't see him shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded. ↗

— Tim Allen

#dangerous #electricity #far #floor #go

I was gone so much in my first marriage. I love the moments when I engage with my youngest daughter now. It's not my thing to sit on the ground and play tea party, but I'll do it because it's a moment that will stick with me forever. ↗

— Tim Allen

#daughter #engage #first #forever #gone

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#am #background #class #class background #contempt

I come from a pop background, but I'm also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I'm faking it. ↗

— Marc Anthony

#anybody #approach #background #come #defy

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#characters #empty #empty space #film #i

We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#descended #down #during #encampment #ground

I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over. ↗

— John Avlon

#administration #been #being #believe #comes

A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#any #because #comedy #factor #ground