#wat

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#bad #bad taste #cry #enjoy #gruesome

No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools. ↗

— Albert Claude

#around #continue #doubt #ever #grow

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#because #disgusting #drink #fish #i

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#crooked #even #stick #straight #turns

You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it. ↗

— Les Claypool

#back #before #book #everything #favorite

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#days #during #forced #i #live

I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#become #drink #i #never #water

I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#i #never #pipes #rusts #stuff

The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#half #i #inferior #land #large

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out. ↗

— Ninette de Valois

#carefully #everything #first #first of all #good