#bill

Dancing Towards Bethlehem If there is only enough time in the final minutes of the 20th century for one last dance I would like to be dancing it slowly with you, say, in the ballroom of a seaside hotel. My palm would press into the small of your back as the past hundred years collapsed into a pile of mirrors or buttons or frivolous shoes, just as the floor of the 19th century gave way and disappeared in a red cloud of brick dust. There will be no time to order another drink or worry about what was never said, not with the orchestra sliding into the sea and all our attention devoted to humming whatever it was they were playing. ↗

— Billy Collins

#romantic

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naïve, I feel! ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#bill-clinton #clinton #lying #native-americans #president

You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.' 'That's why animals are so soft and huggy. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#bill-watterson #calvin-and-hobbes #hugs #progress

What about your servant? Did he see anything?" [...]As soon as the crisis was over, Billy had fled into his necklace and I hadn't seen him since. I gave him little poke, just for the hell of it, and got back the metaphysical version of the finger. "Billy doesn't know anything," I translated. "Are you certain?" Tell him to suck my balls! "Pretty certain. ↗

— Karen Chance

#cassie #pritkin #the-finger #metaphysics

Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered. ↗

— Daniel Woodrell

#winter

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#bill #college #dirty #great #had

Nine had heard whisperings that the secretive Bilderberg Group was effectively the World Government, undermining democracy by influencing everything from nations' political leaders to the venue for the next war. He recalled persistent rumors and confirmed media reports that the Bilderberg Group had such luminaries as Barack Obama, Prince Charles, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Tony Blair, Bill and Hillary Clinton, George Bush Sr. and George W. Bush. Other Bilderberg members sprung forth from Nine’s memory bank. They included the founders and CEOs of various multinational corporations like Facebook, BP, Google, Shell and Amazon, as well as almost every major financial institution on the planet. ↗

— James Morcan

#amazon-com #barack-obama #bilderberg #bill-clinton #clinton

Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#love #tales-of-love-and-marriage #life

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#bill #both #built #first #first phase

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too. ↗

— Travis Barker

#descendants #good #really #stevenson #too