#ow

He made it quite clear that if I didn't play the role, I would be dead within a week. As you can imagine, the guy who turned down Hagrid would be like the guy who called the Beatles a guitar band. So I couldn't possibly refuse, really. ↗

— Robbie Coltraine

#beatles #called #clear #dead #down

All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature. ↗

— Bill Budge

#crummy #doing #done #finally #future

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#capacity #compassion #else #fatal #feeling

I'm a big follower and reactor to weather. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#follower #i #reactor #weather

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#bleeding #bleeds #death #health #heart

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#ever #ever after #every #happily #i

We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#any #bullets #deficit #federal #followed

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#catastrophic #damnation #end #except #into

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#clean #detestable #i #kitchen #lives

I know nothing about Christianity, nothing about football, and I'm not a Republican. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#christianity #football #i #know #nothing