#um

If this was what Mikhail called opening the gate close to Zayvion’s body, I was going to kill a compass and a slide rule and send them through the gates of death to him. ↗

— Devon Monk

#death

She'd met Colin on a Monday. She'd kissed him on a Friday. Twelve years later. She sighed. It seemed fairly pathetic. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#humor #sarcasm #funny

Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#gods #human #human beings #i #into

People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#assumption #bad #dealing #elected #i

The idealist hopes. The romantic sees doom. The postmodernist sees doom and hopes. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #idealism #funny

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#buy #drink #hard #humanity #i

He shrugged. - They're just people - he said. - They're just doing what people do. Sir. Lord Vetinari gave him a friendly smile. - Of course, of course - he said. - You have to believe that, I appreciate. Otherwise you'd go quite mad. Otherwise you'd think you're standing on a feather-thin bridge over the vaults of Hell. Otherwise existence would be a dark agony and the only hope would be that there is no life after death. I quite understand. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#death

It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#denial #distinguish #general #impossible #mind

Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them. ↗

— Jim Davis

#attribute #automatically #back #because #cats

I don't know what it's like to be an actor, where if your show gets canceled, really you're just a bum. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#bum #canceled #gets #i #just