#mona

That Monaco crash was quite a big one - I pulled 33g when I hit the wall, which is a lot. It's a weird sensation - like all my skin and flesh was being pulled off my bones. ↗

— Jenson Button

#big #bones #crash #flesh #hit

I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#argument #assassin #call #give #going

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#hands #lemon #lemonade #make #you

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#crook #destitute #i #monarch #sooner

You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!' ↗

— Harlan Coben

#because #box #buy #call #even

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#commit #etiquette #go #inclines #into

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey. ↗

— John Dryden

#decay #fate #monarchs #must #obey

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. ↗

— Epicurus

#because #cannot #easy #free #free life

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance. ↗

— Sue Townsend

#corpses #dance #finished #making #monarchy

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. ↗