#favourite

Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader. ↗

— James Buchan

#authors #cutting #disgust #effects #favourite

My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened. ↗

— Peter Tork

#ever #favourite #gigs #happened #monkees

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#age #anything #back #being #bombed

Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England. ↗

— Zola Budd

#england #favourite #haunts #were

He remembered a story Madrigal had told him once: the human tale of the golem. It was a thing shaped of clay in the form of a man, brought to life by carving the symbol aleph into its brow. Aleph was the first symbol of an ancestral human alphabet, and the first letter of the Hebrew word truth; it was the beginning. Watching Karou rise to her feet, radiant in a fall of lapis hai, in a woven dress the colour of tangerines, with a loop of silver beads at her throat and a look of joy and relief and... love... on her beautiful face, Akiva knew that she was his aleph, his truth and beginning. His soul. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#beauty

The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#cedar #characters #chinese #contrive #favourite

After my own for instance, my favourite is Princess Leia. ↗

— Peter Mayhew

#favourite #instance #leia #my own #own

My favourite movie right now is probably 'Hitch,' a Will Smith thing. ↗

— Chris Moneymaker

#hitch #movie #now #probably #right

Coming over to Europe you can always put on weight really easily because you are not doing your normal routine at home. It is just a bit more discipline and not eating breads and pastas which are my favourite foods in the entire world. ↗

— Sally Pearson

#because #bit #coming #discipline #doing

I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27. ↗

— Clement Atlee

#chinese food #dish #favourite #food #i