#sai

Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#charges #delivered #demands #flag #flags

Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be hoisted, the English flag. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#english #flag #give #hoist #immediate

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#attends #await #brave #brave men #conferred

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#cells #die #forgotten #how #i

I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that's very telling. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#accomplished #awards #books #discuss #final

I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like? ↗

— Brad Pitt

#grandfather #grandparents #i #like #movie

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. ↗

— Plato

#i #knowledge #said #socrates #soul

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure. ↗

— Plato

#benefit #conferred #injure #may #often

At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#carpenter #end #first #get #halloween

I've often said in the past that I thought MTV was sort of evil incarnate and signified the beginning of the end. And I don't know if I'm entirely wrong about that, but they did sign my paychecks a year ago, so I guess I'm part of the problem. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#ago #beginning #did #end #entirely