#tin

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#battlefield #before #dying #ever #eyes

At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#cool #cutting #died #first #forget

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence. ↗

— George Byron

#existence #had #i #known #lord

To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#feeling #frustrating #give #know #part

Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting. ↗

— Kristin Davis

#also #blonde #disease #does #everybody

A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#did #gave #good #i #latin

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life. ↗

— Miles Davis

#about #always #creating #creative #day

Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch. ↗

— Mark Davis

#another #bailey #barbara #barbara boxer #being

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#art #beauty #colour #forms #good

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way. ↗

— Richard Harding Davis

#good writing #new #new thing #new way #old