#isi

There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth. ↗

— Mark Kurlansky

#dreams #history #vision #war #dreams

I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television. ↗

— Nancy Travis

#i #i wish #life #real #real life

You were chastising me. You may continue. ↗

— C.L. Wilson

#humor #humor

People are talking of his susceptibility to the rising delivery, but let me tell you that when you are out of form, every ball looks like a hand grenade. ↗

— David Gower

#delivery #every #form #grenade #hand

If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#angles #apparently #attention #bird #course

This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#because #certain #cost #feel #gadgets

I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close. ↗

— David Hockney

#cities #close #confess #first #got

Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare. ↗

— Ed Asner

#joy #kids #part #raising #warfare

No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night! ↗

— Lauren Hutton

#change #child #children #diapers #feed

It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#carlton #doing #england #expensive #getting