#leaving

Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#construction #down #house #houses #iroquois

I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line. ↗

— Roman Polanski

#cut #dirty #head #his #how

I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck. ↗

— Ernest Borgnine

#could #dollars #eat #got #high

We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us. ↗

— Louise Jameson

#before #leaving #me #new #press

When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#arrived #capital #contrive #could #despair

I'm proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany. ↗

— Thomas Kretschmann

#came #certain #certain things #fact #germany

We're not leaving here without Buster, man. Leave no crash-test dummy behind! ↗

— Adam Savage

#buster #dummy #here #leave #leaving

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#developer #leaving #long #people #professional

In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#come #else #happens #heart #instinct

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department. ↗

— Robert Shea

#degree #department #every #extraordinary #happens