#etc

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#already #cannot #child #children #dogs

S’up, Figgy? ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#mundungus #mundungus-fletcher #humor

Leave me with my leftover meatloaf and my Yesterday Sandwich. I’ll be in love tomorrow, if you come back with the ketchup. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #ketchup #leftovers #life

Was our life together that unbearable? ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#key-quote #lionel-shriver #relationships #life

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#blotted #characters #loneliness #mind #never

I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#correct #could #customs #etc #faces

The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#began #better #better time #day #days

Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing. ↗

— Hope Davis

#barbecue #beaches #car #city #coasts

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession. ↗

— Georges Bizet

#beautiful #beautiful art #profession #wretched

The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#animal #being #being prepared #called #circus