#rat

When I was 18 I worked with the Ringling Brothers circus, taking care of menagerie animals. I used to rather deliberately risk my life with the big cats. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#brothers #care #cats #circus #deliberately

I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there. ↗

— Frank Miller

#being there #best #create #efforts #i

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#accurate #picture #science #thing #world

We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason. ↗

— Philip Kearny

#declaration #enemy #follow #full #i

Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government, religion or manners. ↗

— James Kent

#consideration #differ #dimensions #each #entitled

I would rather be known as 'Jim Kolbe, the trade expert in Congress who happens to be gay,' rather than 'Jim Kolbe, gay congressman from Arizona.' ↗

— Jim Kolbe

#congress #congressman #expert #gay #happens

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#exciting #frankly #i #liberating #pretend

Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way. ↗

— Thelonious Monk

#be-bop #deliberate #developed #way

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again. ↗

— Laurel Lee

#beyond #could #forgive #form #grooves

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre. ↗

— Laura Lippman

#conservative #crime #fact #generation #genre