#oar

I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain. ↗

— Jessica Biel

#child #cut #dead #dragged #home

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals. ↗

— Bono

#associates #commodities #corrupt #government #hoard

I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. I'd go out with a board under my arm and think, 'I can't do that in Cranhill.' ↗

— Billy Boyd

#beach #board #down #go #going

I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow. ↗

— Vanessa Brown

#feel #field #headphones #i #i feel

Ambition can creep as well as soar. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#creep #soar #well

My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#crossing #followed #girl #grandfather #grandmother

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#blithe #bosom #coarse #dances #diamond

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#aside #breeding #coarse #contempt #days

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#imprint #lasting #leave #oar #people

At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#back #boarding #boarding school #brown #chest