#off

But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance, to which the inevitable disillusionment you experience on seeing them gives a singular spice. You had expected something wholly beautiful and you get an impression which is infinitely more complicated than any that beauty can give you. It is the weakness in the character of a great man which may make him less admirable but certainly more interesting. Nothing had prepared me for Honolulu... ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#coffee #travel #beauty

Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#coen #doing #even #films #hope

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#i #job #kinda #offered #out

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#carrier #certainly #glory #off #pilot

Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#believe #cuts #democratic #democratic leaders #leaders

We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#cape #choices #determined #here #long

I'm surprised that I actually pulled off the recording, getting all those people at the same time. ↗

— Link Wray

#getting #i #off #people #pulled

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#businesses #fighting #first #know #leave

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#i #knows #legitimate #like #music

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#done #easy #forgive #least #like