#or

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#bores #chivalry #dragons #past #succeeded

Why is everything always my decision?" I asked. Because you will not tolerate anything else." Oh, I remembered now. "Great", I whispered. - Anita to Jean-Claude ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#anita-blake #fiction #hunter #jean-claude #paranormal

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#carriage #could #death #held #i

I don't love football the way I once loved the game. I don't look at it as fun anymore, and it definitely used to be fun. A lot of the fun has been taken away from it, I guess, because you go through so much on the field and off the field. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#away #because #been #definitely #field

I like good strong words that mean something… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #words #strong

Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#al-qaeda #any #between #collaboration #communicate

Them sportswriters don't even know how to put uniforms on, most of 'em. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#how #know #most #put #them

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine. ↗

— James Dickey

#crazy #creative #indispensable #intelligent #magazine

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#ill #praise #understand #worse #you

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater. ↗

— Janine Turner

#ballet #board #both #directors #honored