#gus

The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand. ↗

— William Dampier

#august #clean #fathom #half #into

A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#misattributed #paul-valery #writing #art

I try to get them working. My older son is 10 and he's pretty interested. We had a dinner party the other night and he helped a lot. He helped peel asparagus; he hung out. It was great. ↗

— Todd English

#dinner #dinner party #get #great #had

An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen. ↗

— Valentino Garavani

#disgusting #dress #evening #ever #i

Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree. ↗

— Richard Harris

#away #brought #cocoon #completely #custom

The tenor of the comments as we got closer and closer to August got dominated by 'Wouldja please get this over with' and not let us go into default. ↗

— Nan Hayworth

#closer #comments #default #dominated #get

I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.' ↗

— Chris Matthews

#august #been #college #every #flash

Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71. ↗

— Robert Quine

#august #bar #failing #here #i

Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will. ↗

— Basil Rathbone

#august #before #could #course #due

I expect that on the 1st of August, the SA will be once more ready for duty. ↗

— Ernst Rohm

#duty #expect #i #more #once