#land

Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate. ↗

— William Floyd

#despotism #destruction #families #fate #fear

If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine. ↗

— Joan Bennett

#england #had #leigh #mine #only

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#between #comb #falklands #fight #men

Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value. ↗

— Joseph Brant

#indeed #king #lands #little #much

I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones. ↗

— Henri Coanda

#came #fly #flying #future #huge

I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#declare #diminishing #england #establishments #falls

At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage. ↗

— Carlo Collodi

#back #found #front #head #himself

My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years. ↗

— Didi Conn

#company #during #encouraged #ended #first

Scotland should be nothing less than equal with all the other nations of the world. ↗

— Sean Connery

#less #nations #nothing #other #scotland

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13. ↗

— Sean Connery

#because #had #having #i #left