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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#geriatric #memorial #parties #services #set

I wouldn't discount the possibility that the Israelis would act if they came to the conclusion that basically the world was prepared to live with Iran with nuclear weapons. They certainly have the capability by themselves to set back the Iranian nuclear program. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#back #basically #came #capability #certainly

Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood? ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#awful #earning #go #hollywood #lot

I have felt some twinges recently, about parts I wanted to play that I may be getting too old and fat to do. 'Hamlet,' for example - maybe that's gone. I would love to play Richard II. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#example #fat #felt #for example #getting

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#birthday #birthday party #child #feel #fine

People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#get #ghosts #just #like #other

My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#broken #daily #dimly #i #ink

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#attributes #body #colours #combinations #elements

I am recording my first CD in Spanish and preparing myself for the next stage of my career. ↗

— Alicia Machado

#career #cd #first #i #i am

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. ↗

— Arthur Machen

#better #contemptible #department #exquisite #fail