#oar

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#any #becomes #boarding #boarding school #certain

He wanted to heave the glasses against the wall. Break them, break everything he could reach. Beat it, rend it. He stared out the window, imagined the city in flames, consumed to ashes. And still it wasn't enough. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#roarke #death

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#backs #branded #day #foreheads #give

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#boarding #boarding school #i #left #religious

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#soaring #wits

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#distance #every #man #ships #wish

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. ↗

— Helen Keller

#creep #feels #impulse #never #soar

At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other. ↗

— William Adams

#aboard #being #boats #came #come

It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important. ↗

— Daisy Berkowitz

#board #cabinet #coming #important #initial

Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#coarse #defending #die #form #head