#vent

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#days #fact #festival #god #having

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#advantages #devil #disagreeable #distance #his

Doubt is the father of invention. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#father #invention

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#arrangement #believes #civilization #ingenious #inventor

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#convenient #deity #drunk #excuse #getting

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#idleness #leisure #meditate #place #retirement

There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down the road, so you don't worry for that character. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#character #conventional #down #down the road #part

In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead. ↗

— Uwe Boll

#because #buried #chair #dead #electric

We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events. ↗

— Bryan Clay

#lie #like #ourselves #say #ten

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing." ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#active #adventure #expects #experience #goes