#pie

The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived. ↗

— Bernard De Voto

#gin #glory #great #happiest #lived

Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal. ↗

— Tatyana Tolstaya

#develop #disappears #furnished #furniture #goal

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it. ↗

— Sue Townsend

#every time #i #long #new #piece

I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You never see that anymore. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#boston #cream #danish #father #i

In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry. ↗

— Ivanka Trump

#always #anything #both #business #cultures

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few. ↗

— John Updike

#few #infancy #paltry #secrets #shame

And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year! ↗

— Jim Valvano

#arthur #arthur ashe #ashe #back #brains

So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#beginning #come #end #find #having

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. ↗

— Voltaire

#architecture #beasts #built #fight #greatest

I still eat pizzas, I still like pies, I still have spaghetti hoops for breakfast... but it's in moderation now. ↗

— Shane Warne

#eat #hoops #i #like #moderation