#fling

A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself. ↗

— George Crabbe

#cannot #die #dry #fish #fling

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm. ↗

— Henry Miller

#beliefs #customs #doctrines #ethics #import

People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything. ↗

— Carey Mulligan

#because #fear #fling #get #get married

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#british actors #deliberate #emotion #many #must

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife. ↗

— Barack Obama

#baffling #completely #extended #fact #fame

May love's kindred treasure box fling your luminescent glove. ↗

— Isabel Yosito

#fling #glove #kindred #love #may

Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#flings #friendship #love #relationships #friendship

Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#men #summer #men

Christendom appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to mankind. ↗

— Edward Hicks

#any #appears #arts #been #christendom

When you're on a movie set and you are hopefully making a comedy, everyone's stifling their laughter. You're looking at the crew guys, hoping someone is making that face like, and not like, this is not working out, man. ↗

— Dane Cook

#crew #everyone #face #guys #hopefully