#liam

A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper. ↗

— John Pym

#body #commonwealth #facility #keep #parliament

The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#commission #conference #decided #draft #following

It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#being used #case #dealing #does #end

The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#bank #brought #colonial #community #during

When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#anything #based #bill #brilliant #career

When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot. ↗

— Stephen Root

#differently #every #five #funny #i

It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed. ↗

— Henry Addington

#been #deep #delayed #determination #long

The Williams sisters, they have this power. They have this ability to come back from nowhere. ↗

— Elena Vesnina

#back #come #nowhere #power #sisters

And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge. ↗

— Andrea Martin

#broadway musicals #challenge #done #had #i

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#blake #book #certainly #first #his