#r

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#bought #bound #boy #british #children

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#environment #everyday #furniture #given #human

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#drinking #easy #i #now #off

There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#drink #get #liquor #only #real

But it's a strange thing when people judge you because you're not doing some big Hollywood film. Are you suggesting I should be in 'The Dukes of Hazzard?' I mean, hello? ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#big #doing #dukes #film #hello

Give me a sword fight any day. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#day #fight #give #give me #me

I want to be a matador in the bull market, but not so I can make a killing. Rather, I just want to wear flamboyant and form-fitting pants that emphasize my genitalia as I stroll down Wall Street. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#jarod-kintz #matador #provocative #strange #funny

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal. ↗

— Anatole France

#eternal #know #life #short #short life

I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#early work #everything #get #i #i do

The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#access #character #experts #films #great