#nix

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#cut #down #kind #mount #nixon

(I was never surprised that they did not have a phoenix on display. There is only one phoenix at a time, of course, and while the Natural History Museum was filled with dead things, the phoenix is always alive.) ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#nature

And it’s Johnson, Johnson with the Quaffle, what a player that girl is, I’ve been saying it for years but she still won’t go out with me —” “JORDAN!” yelled Professor McGonagall. “Just a fun fact, Professor, adds a bit of interest — ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#j-k-rowling #jordan #order-of-the-phoenix #professor-mcgonagall #quidditch

it was his own grief turned magically to song ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#grief

While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater. ↗

— Earl Butz

#nixon #popular #president #while