#met

But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here. ↗

— Dorothy Dunnett

#always #because #chess #father #fondness

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#sometimes #succeeds

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#death #effort #filibuster #know #purpose

They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#bare #come #cool #different #disney

My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm down sometimes and just be me. ↗

— Kevin Durant

#been #calm #calm down #coach #doing

Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#angelic #created #elves #graceful #human strength

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole. ↗

— Adam Duritz

#down #echoes #hear #hole #idiot

I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes. ↗

— Charles Durning

#count #friends #heroes #how #i

Of course, I'm not often the top dog, but sometimes it's better not to be top dog, because you last longer. If a movie or play flops, you always blame the lead. They say, 'He couldn't carry it.' They always blame him. But they rarely blame the second or third banana. ↗

— Charles Durning

#banana #because #better #blame #carry

I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something. ↗

— Eliza Dushku

#guys #his #i #like #marking