#lid

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose. ↗

— David Brainerd

#away #good #how #i #i do

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#billie holiday #edith #gets #holiday #i

I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#comes #greeting #guy #hallmark #holidays

Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them. ↗

— William Falconer

#called #cask #close #compact #contained

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn. ↗

— John Buchan

#barbarism #bring #civilization #division #earth

In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#among #borders #divide #fact #great

I am seriously troubled by the proposed rapid consolidation in the telecommunications marketplace. ↗

— Conrad Bums

#consolidation #i #i am #marketplace #proposed

I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had 'bikini'd' me on the beach. I was wearing a grossly unflattering costume and they had published photographs of me taken from behind. I looked dreadful. I went into our local newsagent and bought up every copy. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#behind #bikini #bought #came #copy

Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I need to find a way to put the fun back into racing. ↗

— Kurt Busch

#find #fun #holiday #i #important

I'm ambitious but I'm not particularly competitive. I'll try to get roles, as I think it's healthy to go for things, but... I think there's too much competition between women already. It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses. ↗

— Rose Byrne

#ambitious #between #competition #competitive #each