#lice

The buying of time or space is not the taking out of a hunting license on someone else's private preserve but is the renting of a stage on which we may perform. ↗

— Howard Luck Gossage

#else #hunting #license #may #out

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#arrested #avoid #been #bound #charged

MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#gave #got #how #i #ironic

Well, Mr. Speaker, if so many of these Iraqis are ready to come up and to provide the security, the police work in the country, then surely there should be no problem with putting American forces into the background instead of having them up front. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#background #come #country #forces #front

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference. ↗

— Bess Myerson

#corruption #crime #frequently #indifference #our

Just that what happens today or next week or next year isn't necessarily the way things are always going to be. As soon as you settle into a routine, life throws you a curveball. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't. ↗

— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#life

Sometimes I wish I could just press a button and be through school and starting my real life,' I told him. 'This is your real life, Al,' he said, 'Don't start living in the future. That's like gulping down a piece of fudge cake and then asking yourself, 'Where'd it go?' You're missing the moment. ↗

— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#life

Now and then I see something in her eyes, and I wonder if I’ve ever grasped how much pain she’s really in. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#bella #charlie #edward #wonder

Mary Alice Young: Sweety, we can't prevent what we can't predict! Lynette Scavo: Isn't there anything I could do? Mary Alice Young: Yes. You can enjoy this beautiful day. We get so few of them. ↗

— Desperate Housewives

#desperate-housewives #friendship #happyness #love #lynette-scavo

I’d give just about anything if I could make you care,” he said. “Especially about me. ↗

— Dia Reeves

#ilan #love #slice-of-cherry #love