#sai

But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#died #down #drawbacks #everything #expenses

I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#back #bet #called #challenged #could

The record Clef and I did was just sitting there. So I said, Clef, I got a record, hit a verse on it. He just went in, messed around and ended up doing the hook too. ↗

— Pras Michel

#did #doing #ended #got #hit

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#common #common law #could #course #discipline

I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.' ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#body #get #i #jobs #opened

Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a long memory - they said no and Bill Gates said yes. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#again #any #apple #bill #bill gates

I've said my patience is not infinite. ↗

— Darrell Issa

#infinite #patience #said

I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#alone #barriers #break #break up #created

My agent said to me five years ago, 'Hugh, I can see one day you... if I had to plan a goal for you, it's for you to have the kind of career that Sinatra had.' ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#ago #career #day #five #goal

I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why. ↗

— Janet Jackson

#get #house #i #kids #kind