#mo

I keep everything that is most important to me close to me: my family, my bible, my X-Box - just kidding. ↗

— Brian Littrell

#close #everything #family #i #important

The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it is possible, by committing to show up for others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality. ↗

— Eric Liu

#after #aging #boomers #committing #community

So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die." "Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?" he cried. "What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round. "No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#humor #science #humor

He still wasn't looking at me, which meant I was still in trouble. I swear, sometimes this partnership is like being married. We fight all the time and neither one of us is getting married. ↗

— John G. Hartness

#humor #friendship

Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said 'I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em? ↗

— Bill Watterson

#humor

I got him a cool gift. I got him a pack of razors, and a really furry dead cat.
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— Jarod Kintz

#cats #dead #death #funny #generosity

I also felt that Ron and Hermione would have gotten divorced. I'm sorry, I just do. The end of Harry Potter did feel ultimately to me...just the fact everybody had married everybody. The books were so real and so grounded in what things are really like when you're that age, she nailed that so beautifully. And then there was this slightly fantastical ending. I know that was there for her to say, 'Really, I mean it, no more books,' but you do sort of go, people who were in a war are different from people who haven't been, and how does it affect them? But am I going to second-guess my favorite writer? I think not. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#realism #realism-in-fiction #age

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. ↗

— Ken Livingstone

#being #commons #enjoys #help #house

The United States has the most sophisticated financial markets in the world, which does not leave much room to maneuver. But it also offers investors the greatest access to information and the ability to execute trades quickly and efficiently. So it is a mixed bag of opportunity. ↗

— Andrew Lo

#access #also #bag #does #efficiently

I'd rather be stung to death by a bunch of piss ants. ~Synola Harper, You're Busting My Nuptials ↗

— Ann Everett

#humor #mystery #romantic-comedy #death