#ill

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. ↗

— Josh Billings

#dog #good #his #money #pretty

All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#ever #feel #home #i #people

Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#grown-up #i #liking #parents #peaceful

I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#alive #became #brilliant #fed #great

I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#around #been #family #friends #good

If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to? ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#day #dwelt #each #forward #ills

I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#believe #broadcaster #commercial #durable #fee

Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#american #american consumers #billion #cannot #consumers

Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#beyond #ideas #our #sometimes #will

A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory. ↗

— Paul Davies

#big #big bang #came #crunch #disappear