#thou

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#control #days #drill #greatest #had

Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#land #our #regard #settlement #use

I'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't know where to put me because I was voluptuous and had the accent, but I had blonde hair. It was ignorance: they thought every Latin person looks like Salma Hayek. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#acting #auditions #because #blonde #blonde hair

There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#awareness #becoming #immediate #implications #increasing

Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#ceremony #changes #day #disagree #drill

X is for X-mas Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket, then all your Christmases can come at once! ↗

— Lucas Remmerswaal

#attitude #habits #inspirational-quotes #thoughts #attitude

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#age #became #children #continued #elders

Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to do with my being slow at languages. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#am #being #enough #fact #gifted

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#call #decided #even #hate #high

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#arts #believe #everything #feeling #form