#where

America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks. ↗

— John Barrymore

#aspirin #buy #country #dollar #lifetime

Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#case #enforced #even #family #firmly

I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#along #cleaning #deciding #exam #failed

My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#father #grew #i #intelligentsia #kind

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#certain #certain point #failure #get #i

I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#hung #i #kind #person #point

I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#believe #central #complete #conference #conversion

But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from. ↗

— Aisha Tyler

#came #creatively #i #i came #i love

I don't go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where there are no cool people. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#cool people #either #go #holes #i

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell. ↗

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#greatest #heaven #hell #lie #loss