#irs

My real mom died when I was born—hemorrhaged to death while giving birth to me, which has never been one of my favorite memories—and Dad married Denise before I’d turned a year. Without even asking my opinion on the matter. Denise and I never really clicked. ↗

— Darynda Jones

#darynda-jones #davidson #first-grave-on-the-right #death

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#homer #imitated #nature #thirst #vengeance

I think the first duty of society is justice. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#first #i #i think #justice #society

Yeah, I mean I've definitely had a bunch of action scripts sent to me, but again I'm a stickler for directors. If it's like an action flick with a great director then it's like 'Oh let's look at this thing,' but if it's just like a shoot-em'-up with a first time director. I don't know if that's the trajectory I want to take with what I'm doing. ↗

— Armie Hammer

#again #bunch #definitely #director #directors

Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#humor #humor

Time. Time has a way of standing still during the moments that define one’s life. The first kiss, the birth of one’s first child, a paralyzing car accident, hearing of the death of a parent, the last kiss. ↗

— Benjamin M. Strozykowski

#child #first-kiss #standing-still #time #death

In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms. ↗

— Jane Harman

#associates #firms #first #fraction #graduated

This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign. ↗

— Teri Hatcher

#beauty #campaign #could #first #getting

Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can of worms in terms of who was really a victim and who was not. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

#compensation #first #first of all #number #open

Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#also #attend #china #countries #directed