#bin

People always laugh at me when I tell them I’m scared of pencils, because they can’t fathom why anyone would fear a puncture wound or lead poisoning from a pencil, especially now that it’s impossible to get lead poisoning since they don’t actually contain lead. But those fuckers are sharp, and I have nightmares about getting cornered in a room and repeatedly stabbed with one. Somehow knives don’t frighten me, even though they are the more obvious tool for both a real and imagined stabbing. ↗

— Kate Madison

#memoir #pencils #stabbing #imagination

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#combine #deadly #decide #mind #none

Leadership, he was discovering, had its ups and downs—kind of like the bowsprit on a swelling sea. ↗

— Michael Robert Evans

#inspirational #inspirational

when building a friendship bridge don't forget to construct a distruative path. ↗

— Peter Adejimi

#breakup #enemy #friendship #love #friendship

She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#brains #combination #gifted #giftedness #god

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#poetic #profound #sabina #tereza #tomas

Life itself is the proper binge. ↗

— Julia Child

#binge #itself #proper

This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely. ↗

— Malcolm X

#life #life-lessons #life

There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way. ↗

— J. Carter Brown

#fur #more #rubbing #skinning #than

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#depression #efforts #entails #fear #fools