#rook

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#before #brooklyn #childhood #here #i

Two years ago, of course, I was just a rookie and listened to everybody. In a way I am still a rookie. I'm only 23 and I'll be surrounded by great players who have played in a lot more Ryder Cups than myself. But the rankings say I am the best player at the moment and so that brings a responsibility. ↗

— Rory McIlroy

#am #best #brings #course #cups

Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America. ↗

— Isaac Mizrahi

#ate #brooklyn #even #food #grew

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#between #crooked #distance #line #lines

And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours. ↗

— Mike Myers

#brooks #dad #his #hours #i

I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#crooks #i #i think #party #poorly

I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#corruption #country #crooks #destroyed #duty

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#crooked #everything #glance #gone #into

We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on. ↗

— Jerry Only

#crooked #dragged #goes #got #lawyers

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end. ↗

— Jean Paul

#approach #becomes #before #bright #clear