#pit

I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals. ↗

— Evel Knievel

#blood #bones #broke #hospitals #i

The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money, we have a great film! No, you need a writer with voice and an engaging story, or what you have is a bomb. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#brad #brad pitt #engaging #film #film industry

The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#bush #cameroon #cut #difficult #expand

Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#because #better #championships #crisis #epitome

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it. ↗

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#because #death #difficult #fact #happens

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#idealist #idiot #pity #village #would

I'd like people to listen to our soldiers. They were there. They heard the alarms go off. They tasted the substance in the air. They spit up blood. They had rashes on their bodies. They got sick. ↗

— Christopher Shays

#blood #bodies #go #got #had

Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not. ↗

— Lawrence Kutner

#chopsticks #comes #complexity #despite #even

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#decide #design #designer #language #own

The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#another #banks #call #communal #community