#k

He grumbles incoherently, opens the window a fraction and continues to smoke away. It’s like every time Sidney Drake enters a new location he has to readjust the atmosphere, akin to one of those sci-fi shows where they oxygenate the planet, but for my dad it’s in a suffocating reverse. He replaces the clean wholesome air with a non-stop puff of toxic poison. ↗

— Tom Conrad

#apocalypse #breathe #end-of-the-world #family-saga #oxygen

After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth. ↗

— John Biddle

#both #calling #earnest #embrace #find

I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it. ↗

— Justin Bieber

#anything #forward #i #influencing #just

It's cool when fans spend so much time making things for me. It means a lot. ↗

— Justin Bieber

#fans #lot #making #me #means

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#country #fool #freeman #himself #his

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#claim #culture #cultures #i #jewish

Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult. ↗

— Caprice Bourret

#difficult #human #human beings #make #simple

I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know. ↗

— Acker Bilk

#come #going #i #i think #i wonder

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#background #foreground #landscape #mind

I am a season ticket holder to Dodger games. I go to every Dodger game I can go to. Every single one. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#dodger #every #game #games #go