#om

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#go #into #litigation #machine #out

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#behind #bride #fine #happiness #her

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#eat #edible #good #man #pig

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#ballot #both #choice #commonly #duty

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#having #indicates #ingenious #instrument #kind

For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#combat #comparison #contractors #else #individuals

Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#am #i #myself #think #way

My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#art #being #broke #cartoon #cartoonist

The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#film #journey #long #long journey #matter

The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#guess #i #material #ongoing #process