#kin

In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds. ↗

— Kit Carson

#camp #ever #first #found #great

With my first two husbands, I always kinda sensed they thought there was something wrong with me. Maybe I was too flighty or whatever. ↗

— Dixie Carter

#first #husbands #i #i always #kinda

...the long train ride was like traveling through limbo. You weren't anywhere when you were on a train, she decided. You weren't where you had been, and you weren't yet where you were going. You were nowhere. It might be beautiful outside the window-and it was, she had sense enough to realize that-but it wasn't anywhere to her, just a scene passing by that was framed by the train window. (p160) ↗

— Katherine Paterson

#beauty

I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#escaping #i #into #kind #me

All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself. ↗

— Howard Carter

#king #like #onion #peel #shrines

Working with Danny Thomas was truly an adventure every week. Danny didn't always say the words as they appeared in the script. I learned more by osmosis than by sitting down together. He was a force to be reckoned with: an explorer of television. ↗

— Angela Cartwright

#always #appeared #danny #down #every

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#belong #enforcing #good #good manners #justified

Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys. ↗

— John Henry Carver

#being #controlled #days #elder #meant

It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#accomplished #breaking #control #cry #democratic

I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind. ↗

— Neko Case

#cautionary #christian ethic #ethic #i #impart