#les

I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there. ↗

— David Dinkins

#i #israel #missiles #went #were

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. ↗

— Everett Dirksen

#first #fixed #flexible #i #i am

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. ↗

— Walt Disney

#cartoon #cartoon characters #characters #exaggeration #fable

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. ↗

— George Gissing

#book #excellent #first #first time #friend

Not really, and actually my cholesterol was 190 when I had the heart attack. 190, which isn't that high. I took it down to about 130 and it's probably about 140 or 145 now. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#actually #attack #cholesterol #down #had

This is not the way these tales end," Calliope said firmly. "This is not the way that things end when they get to be tales," Amatus said, "but since ours is not yet told, we cannot count on it. There were a hundred dead princes on the thorns outside Sleeping Beauty's castle, and I'm sure many of them were splendid fellows. ↗

— John Barnes

#calliope #dead-princes #sleeping-beauty #stories #tales

I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian. ↗

— Betty Dodson

#consider #i #lesbian #myself

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice. ↗

— George Gissing

#hopeless #intellectual #most #vice

I like breaking the rules. ↗

— Lexa Doig

#i #like #rules

Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#attracted #between #carved #i #i am