#hee

He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions. ↗

— James Hogg

#different #discovered #duty #eagerness #evolutions

You speak into it and everything is recorded, voice, tone, intonation, everything. You turn a little wheel, and forth it comes, and can be repeated ten thousand times. Only fancy what this suggests. ↗

— Henry Irving

#everything #fancy #forth #into #intonation

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. ↗

— Elizabeth Kenny

#better #day #life #lion #sheep

If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed. ↗

— Hulagu Khan

#ear #family #give #god #heed

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it. ↗

— William Laud

#ambition #any #become #behold #cheek

We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek. ↗

— Lucy Lawless

#comedy #did #lot #quite #show

It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel. ↗

— David Leavitt

#before #bumps #her #instinct #knots

After all, the wool of a black sheep is just as warm. ↗

— Ernest Lehman

#black #black sheep #just #sheep #warm

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house! ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#cripple #house #pitied #pity #stay

I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft. ↗

— Lavrenti Lopes

#craft #dedication #dustin #dustin hoffman #hoffman