#thro

One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#belonged #considered #countries #drove #effect

Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape. ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#day #each #glass #great #i

The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white. ↗

— Stuart Pearce

#black #black and white #brought #football #guided

Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow. ↗

— Minnie Pearl

#disappointments #grow #life #made #show

My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#between #biggest #comprehensive #door #fight

The beard is here because I got tired of shaving and Grissom, subsequently, got tired of shaving. Grissom, like any other 50-year-old man, is going through a series of mid-life changes. Who knows, he may start drinking. ↗

— William Petersen

#beard #because #changes #drinking #going

All these horror movies are slasher film now. I like them, they're fun, but they wink at the audience and you're really not terrified through the movie. ↗

— Gina Philips

#film #fun #horror #horror movies #i

If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again. ↗

— Bill O'Reilly

#again #apologize #bush #bush administration #clean

They used a doll when I fall through the ceiling. ↗

— Heather O'Rourke

#doll #fall #i #through #used

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#drunk #drunkenness #eve #get #holiday