#pee

You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#peeta-mellark #games

Give her hell from us, Peeves. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#george-weasley #hell #mischief #peeves #umbridge

I'm coming back into focus when Caesar asks him if he has a girlfriend back home. Peeta hesitates, then gives an unconvincing shake of his head. Handsome lad like you. There must be some special girl. Come on, what’s her name?" says Caesar. Peeta sighs. "Well, there is this one girl. I’ve had a crush on her ever since I can remember. But I’m pretty sure she didn’t know I was alive until the reaping." Sounds of sympathy from the crowd. Unrequited love they can relate to. She have another fellow?" asks Caesar. I don’t know, but a lot of boys like her," says Peeta. So, here’s what you do. You win, you go home. She can’t turn you down then, eh?" says Caesar encouraging-ly. I don’t think it’s going to work out. Winning...won’t help in my case," says Peeta. Why ever not?" says Caesar, mystified. Peeta blushes beet red and stammers out. "Because...because...she came here with me. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#love

In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step. ↗

— Giovanni Agnelli

#certain #economy #europe #first #first of all

As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment. ↗

— Kamal Ahmed

#behaviour #being #believe #fed #genuine

The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then. ↗

— Debbie Allen

#gives #great #happening #harlem #movie

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song. ↗

— David Antin

#distaste #far #great #had #i

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#being #definition #makes #man #matters

In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#committee #concludes #cox #deployment #design

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#asking #blinds #government #install #like