#ike

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#artistic #basically #bent #coast #culture

Yeah, well, the F-bomb - it's become as ubiquitous as the word 'like.' People just throw the word 'like' around as punctuation. And I think in a lot of everyday speech, the F-bomb has become a kind of dash or a comma. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#become #comma #dash #everyday #i

I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country. ↗

— Ian Rush

#foreign #foreign country #i #italy #like

I've got a place in Portugal, which I like very much, but I've just been working in Malaysia for five weeks. My family had a chance to come over and we really loved it, particularly the island of Pangkor. ↗

— Ian Rush

#chance #come #family #five #got

I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arranger like I am, and he let me do what I had to do. ↗

— Otis Rush

#arranger #band #before #had #hell is

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#ignore #like #offer #own #return

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#books #clearly #concerned #gallery #i

Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#beings #believe #believes #biological #classification

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. ↗

— John Ruskin

#dead #drop #faults #good #imitate

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#destruction #hence #like #mandates #nature