#oar

I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#beads #board #came #directed #dozen

Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them. ↗

— Barry Cornwall

#half #heard #hearts #hoard #ills

Life is a lot like skateboarding. ↗

— Lil Wayne

#life is a #like #lot #skateboarding

Surfboards were everywhere. When I got my first new board, I was probably in kindergarten. ↗

— Brandon Cruz

#everywhere #first #got #i #kindergarten

If I could be lucky enough to just have radio as the base for the rest of my life, I could build off that. No matter how successful I become, I always look at radio as the only skill set I can really call on. I even know how to operate the boards. ↗

— Carson Daly

#base #become #boards #build #call

I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games. ↗

— Jason Dohring

#basketball #big #games #golf #guy

From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#ages #good #humour #i #people

She turned toward Roarke's office, then stopped in the doorway. He was at his console; captain of his ship. He'd drawn his hair back so it lay on his neck in a short, gleaming black tail. His eyes were cool, cool blue. The colour they were when his mind was fully occupied. He'd taken off his dinner jacket, his shirt was loose at the collar, the sleeves rolled up. There was something... just something about that look that always and forever grabbed her in the gut. She could look at him for hours, and at the end of it, still marvel that he belonged to her. "Someone wants to hurt you," she thought. "I'm not going to let them. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#death

As a planning board commissioner, I have to review the applications for development throughout the city, and the bulk of those applications have been for the waterfront. I think the progress the waterfront has made is amazing. ↗

— Vincent Frank

#applications #been #board #bulk #city

Keep it simple in the kitchen. If you use quality ingredients, you don't need anything fancy to make food delicious: just a knife, a cutting board, and some good nonstick cookware, and you're set. ↗

— Curtis Stone

#board #cookware #cutting #delicious #fancy