#thou

When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation. ↗

— Felicity Kendal

#anticipation #i #i always #little #marked

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#job #without #you

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. ↗

— George F. Kennan

#civilized #concept #generation #history #implies

In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people. ↗

— Ruth Harrison

#food-for-thought #vegan #food

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work. ↗

— George Kennedy

#full #get #hour #hundreds #imagine

Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#backwards #cannot #election #even #except

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route. ↗

— Elizabeth Kenny

#anywhere #enough #enter #exit #long

I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#editors #formed #i #ideals #my own

Several famous people have licked my nipples. Well, indirectly. First they licked the stamps, and then I peeled them off the letters and stuck them on my nipples.
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— Jarod Kintz

#celebrity #fame #funny #humor #letter

Es curioso cómo el pensamiento incurre en lo inverosímil, cómo se lo permite momentáneamente, cómo fantasea o se hace supersticioso para descansar un rato o encontrar alivio, cómo es capaz de negar los hechos y hacer que retroceda el tiempo, aunque sea un instante. Cómo se parece al sueño. ↗

— Javier Marías

#spanish #food