#fond

And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name. ↗

— Elton John

#anyway #because #change #english #fond

Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you. ↗

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

#believe #fond #his #jests #level

I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either. ↗

— Kerry King

#either #fond #i #like #loud

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#become #fonder #i #maybe #poetry

My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#around #basketball #cameras #come #control

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war. ↗

— Philip Roth

#fond #inordinately #subordination #unless #war

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them. ↗

— George Saunders

#believe #briefly #center #delusion #else

During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#christian #christian right #christians #during #fond

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them. ↗

— Frank Sinatra

#flunked #fond #i #like #men

I'm very fond of drugs. ↗

— Grace Slick

#i #very