#owning

I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#argue #be happy #cameron #case #david

Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use. ↗

— John O'Hara

#good #i #like #much #owning

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home. ↗

— Kenny Guinn

#extremely #owning #permanent #profound #something

Hitch: making rules about drinking can be the sign of an alcoholic,' as Martin Amis once teasingly said to me. (Adorno would have savored that, as well.) Of course, watching the clock for the start-time is probably a bad sign, but here are some simple pieces of advice for the young. Don't drink on an empty stomach: the main point of the refreshment is the enhancement of food. Don't drink if you have the blues: it's a junk cure. Drink when you are in a good mood. Cheap booze is a false economy. It's not true that you shouldn't drink alone: these can be the happiest glasses you ever drain. Hangovers are another bad sign, and you should not expect to be believed if you take refuge in saying you can't properly remember last night. (If you really don't remember, that's an even worse sign.) Avoid all narcotics: these make you more boring rather than less and are not designed—as are the grape and the grain—to enliven company. Be careful about up-grading too far to single malt Scotch: when you are voyaging in rough countries it won't be easily available. Never even think about driving a car if you have taken a drop. It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't ever be responsible for it. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#advice #alcoholism #alochol #drinking #drowning-one-s-sorrows

There are a lot of impractical things about owning a Porsche. But they're all offset by the driving experience. It really is unique. Lamborghinis and Ferraris come close. And they are more powerful, but they don't handle like a Porsche. ↗

— Kevin O'Leary

#close #come #driving #experience #handle

There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#between #class #england #huge #north

Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#always #audience #believed #clowning #i

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin. ↗

— Frank Harris

#capital #christian #churches #crowning #degraded

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#death #defeat #doors #drowning #emigration

Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there. ↗

— Billy Bob Thornton

#drowning #i #lifted #man #me