#ld

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#ever #history #rented #the history of #washed

Series television is either a nightmare or the best thing in the whole world. It really depends on, I think, where you are in your life. ↗

— Sherry Stringfield

#depends #either #i #i think #life

I don't want to die an old lady. ↗

— Edith Piaf

#i #lady #old #old lady #want

The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#asia #being #coming #competition #enter

All these portrayals we see of knights fighting must be absolute rubbish because knights in armour could literally have only had two or three blows and then they'd have had to sit down to have a cup of tea. ↗

— Mark Strong

#armour #because #blows #could #cup

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#beauty #become #just #otherwise #philosophy

I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book. ↗

— Joe Strummer

#arabic #began #book #british #cause

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything. ↗

— Gloria Stuart

#amazed #cake #enjoying #everything #going

After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks. ↗

— Kurt Student

#after #apart #arrange #british #could

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#every #every man #face #gives #glass