#rip

All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription. ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#anymore #back #baseball #bring #caps

Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will. ↗

— James Mcneill Whistler

#oscar-wilde #riposte #humor

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#corruption #description #give #pen #produced

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking? ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#am #fact #feel #having #i

The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick. ↗

— Kelly Jones

#came #cold #dakota #doing #first

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ↗

— Shirley Jones

#after #became #butcher #children #doubled

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts. ↗

— Stephen King

#dad #had #i #manuscripts #mother

I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

#europe #got #his #i #ideas

Around the outside of the room other beautiful women wearing little or nothing at all flitted between the infatuated, intoxicated men, sometimes luring them away for a private dance. The men would follow obediently, weighed down by lust and credit cards. ↗

— R.D. Ronald

#lust #strippers #beauty

When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot. ↗

— Ray Kroc

#growing #ripe #rot #you #your