#late

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#anyone #caprice #fates #inoculated #intelligence

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#euclid #i #later #russell #taken

The longest 60 seconds in the world occur when someone says, “I’ll be there in a minute.”
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— Jarod Kintz

#humor #late #minute #time #waiting

To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#nonsense #rights #say #turkey #violated

I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to. ↗

— Bryan White

#artist #audience #could #every #i

It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing. ↗

— Kenneth Williams

#coward #emulate #envied #his #i

She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out. ↗

— Fay Wray

#been #bother #chief #chief justice #did

The painted picture was a bit rough, which was probably done on purpose, yet seemed eerily real as if there actually was a way to step through it into the wild jungle ↗

— Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea

#collateral #three-dimensional #wild #art

Me: On time. Women: Late. Death: Early.
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— Jarod Kintz

#early #late #life #women #death

The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place. ↗

— Iain Pears

#black-plague #christians #clement-vi #dream-of-scipio #gaul