#lia

I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#architect #before #brazilian #cannot #i

I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#american #american people #aspect #become #freedom

My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#brilliant #british #cooking #dad #eating

In my early teens, I heard about Naked Lunch and its mutating typewriters and talking cockroaches. While I would hardly classify its dystopic vision as erotica now, at the time, Naked Lunch was my first foray into consuming smut. It was because of Burroughs that I knew about the particular musk that blooms when a rectum is penetrated, and that death-by-hanging produces spontaneous trouser tents. The first Burroughs I read was Naked Lunch, but I buried myself in a few of his stories, and thus the arc of my recollection is just as non-linear as his narrative. ↗

— Peter Dubé

#coming-of-age #erotica #homosexuality #literature #queer

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body. ↗

— Joe Orton

#body #envy #familiar #fifteen #i

I'm not familiar with the metric system. ↗

— Patton Oswalt

#i #metric #system

His hold is tight, our fingers are laced, and he’s occasionally rubbing circles on the top of my hand with his thumb. These small gestures definitely make handholding seem more like an art. ↗

— Kim Karr

#river-wilde #art

Your memorabilia becomes more significant. It does put you in a different category. ↗

— Jim Palmer

#category #different #does #memorabilia #more

I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver. ↗

— Chazz Palminteri

#being #built #bus #bus driver #community

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself. ↗

— Franz von Papen

#conceivable #gain #government #itself #majority