#hai

When I was a kid I had this funny blonde hair and everyone called me 'Chick' because I looked like Tweety Bird. ↗

— Nicky Hilton

#bird #blonde #blonde hair #called #chick

At Bealltainn, or May Day, every effort was made to scare away the fairies, who were particularly dreaded at this season. In the West Highlands charms were used to avert their influence. In the Isle of Man the gorse was set alight to keep them at a distance. In some parts of Ireland the house was sprinkled with holy water to ward off fairy influence. These are only a mere handful out of the large number of references available, but they seem to me to reveal an effort to avoid the attentions of discredited deities on occasions of festival once sacred to them. The gods duly return at the appointed season, but instead of being received with adoration, they are rebuffed by the descendants of their former worshippers, who have embraced a faith which regards them as demons. In like manner the fairies in Ireland were chased away from the midsummer bonfires by casting fire at them. At the first approach of summer, the fairy folk of Scotland were wont to hold a "Rade," or ceremonial ride on horseback, when they were liable to tread down the growing grain. ↗

— Lewis Spence

#demons #faires #fairy #gods #halloween

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture. ↗

— Dee Hock

#every #furniture #mind #packed #room

Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew nothing about the economy... until the day he was elected. It's called universal suffrage. When you're elected, you become the person that embodies France. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#archaic #badly #become #before #call

My agent sent me the script and I loved it. I wondered how they would turn me into a chimp. My agent said it would probably not entail to much time. Just some hair and make-up. I found out that it was not so simple. ↗

— Kim Hunter

#entail #found #hair #how #i

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. ↗

— James Thurber

#armchair #attic #future #guess #old

More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#being #building #chair #christ #discussion

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#blood #chain #destiny #faithful #ignorant

On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#blacks #bring #chairs #change #coming

It's just been so heartwarming to see my clothes on people in wheelchairs and people needing physical support. ↗

— Betsey Johnson

#clothes #heartwarming #just #needing #people