#oar

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of your money. ↗

— Jim Rogers

#chairman #get #half #information #inside

You can crawl back to whatever hole you live in and fuck your landlord for rent. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#gameboard-of-the-gods #age

I read upon the subject and grew more and more interested, and after a time I became a member of the National Board, and had duties and responsibilities that kept me busy after my day's work was done. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#became #board #busy #day #done

Originally, the cellar served primarily as a coal store. Today it holds the boiler, idle suitcases, out-of-season sporting equipment, and many sealed cardboard boxes that are almost never opened but are always carefully transferred from house to house with every move in the belief that one day someone might want some baby clothes that have been kept in a box for twenty-five years. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#cellar #hoarding #moving #storage #home

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. ↗

— Bernie Worrell

#boston #conservatory #england #got #i

I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball. ↗

— Cy Young

#boards #fastball #had #i #show

What in hell are you really made of, Howard? After all, it's only a building. It's not the combination of holy sacrament, Indian torture, and sexual ecstasy that you seem to make of it." "Isn't it? ↗

— Ayn Rand

#howard-roark #inspiration #passion #art

If we never had the courage to take a leap of faith, we'd be cheating God out of a chance to mount us up with wings like eagles and watch us soar. ↗

— Jen Stephens

#eagles #faith #god #leap-of-faith #soar

What a woman you are,” he murmured, and she heard the emotion in it, the way the Irish thickened just a bit in his voice. And saw it in those vivid eyes when he drew back. “That you would think of this. That you would do this.” He shook his head, kissed her. Like the breath, long and quiet. “I can’t thank you enough. There isn’t enough thanks. I can’t say what this means to me, even to you. I don’t have the words for it.” He took her hands, brought them both to his lips. “A ghra. You stagger me.” He framed her face now, touched his lips to her brow. “You’re the beat of my heart, the breath in my body, the light in my soul. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#in-death-series #love #roarke #romance #death

You know, lieutenant, you wear your weapon the way other women wear pearls." "It's not a fashion accessory. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#naked #naked-in-death #roarke #death