#ford

Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,' said Paul. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#oxford #home

Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood... ↗

— Douglas Adams

#ford-anyone #humor #humor

I had a werewolf morning. Awoke with a rum hangover, imagined blood on the walls, and prayed to god it was mine. ↗

— Randy Wayne White

#florida #rww #tomlinson #imagination

I'd think it strange that the boardinghouse attracted both him and me, but that's what cheap places do -- draw in people with no money. An apartment of my own was unthinkable at that time of my life, and even if I'd found an affordable one it wouldn't have satisfied my fundamental need to live in a communal past, or what I imagined the past to be like: a world full of antiques. ↗

— David Sedaris

#community #living #money #imagination

The harder you work, the luckier you are, and I worked like hell. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#inspiration #president #success #inspirational

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#life

and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#ford #insanity #lemons #life

Sometimes Hen...I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#dunford #julia-quinn #love #minx #regency

He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#the-woman-who-died-a-lot #thursday-next #life

A ruby-encrusted orb popped its top and helicopter blades unfolded. Leo was glad Buford the table wasn't here-he would've fallen in love. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#humour #leo-valdez #love