#ok

Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time. ↗

— Dick Bruna

#books #changed #early #i #lot

When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay. ↗

— George S. Kaufman

#expect #face #her #i #invite

I think we look to the military as something that protects our shores. ↗

— Jerry Bruckheimer

#i think #look #military #our #protects

I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was. ↗

— Dick Bruna

#altogether #always #author #bond #books

Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect. ↗

— James Buchan

#baghdad #been #british #creeping #decline

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place. ↗

— Kobe Bryant

#ankle #because #before #broken #during

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#brain #expression #going #his #joke

I think the legacy we leave is our family. I don't think it's money. I don't think it's - I'm not saying that charity isn't a great thing. I just think that it's my family. Even now I look and I think, God, I'm lucky if I lost it all. ↗

— Michael Buble

#even #even now #family #god #great

When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset register, which was immediately dubbed by the boomers of the UK Treasury 'the modern Domesday Book.' ↗

— James Buchan

#book #boomers #brown #commissioned #dubbed

I've been to nudist beaches, like twice. But honestly, I just don't want to see these people naked. Most people look better with their clothes on, and the few that don't, look better than you, so why bother? ↗

— Peter Buck

#been #better #bother #clothes #few