#eating

The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt. ↗

— Ruben Hinojosa

#debt #dollars #economic #economic security #new

Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck. ↗

— Billie Holiday

#down #duck #eating #i #i love

The Americans as a nation are killing themselves with their vices and high living. As much as a man ought to eat in half an hour they swallow in three minutes gulping down their food like the [dog] under the table which when a chunk of meat is thrown down to it swallows it before you can say 'twice.' If you want a reform carry out the advice I have just given you. Dispense with your multitudinous dishes, and, depend upon it, you will do much towards preserving your families from sickness, disease and death. ↗

— Brigham Young

#compulsive-overeating #death

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#another #balls #burned #burning #coals

Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#been #burns #charcoal #coals #eating

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#eating #entirely #fake #performance

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#begins #draw #get #glamorous #keeps

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#creating #finding #finding yourself #life #yourself

Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#fate #humor #misfortune #top- #humor

Nobody got me out," Nellie replied. "They just let me go. They think I'm a deranged Jonah Wizard fan. Apparently, the hotel's full of them. A couple of idiots actually jumped off the front balcony. Can you picture that?" "In Technicolor," Amy said bitterly. "That low-down KGB reject!" Dan fumed. "I can't believe she cheated me–right when I was in the middle of cheating her! ↗

— Gordon Korman

#humor #jonah-wizard #nellie-gomez #the #humor