#pressed

My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#child #father #him #holding #i

I'm very impressed that there are so many fans - not just in Japan, but here in America - that are fond of the work that I've done. I'm actually kind of embarrassed by it all. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#america #done #embarrassed #fans #fond

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#bible #magna #oppressed #poor

Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly. ↗

— Alva Noto

#alone #closer #disturbing #express #expressed

So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

#because #been #come #had #history

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#away #father #grave #hand #him

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies. ↗

— Lionel Jospin

#capital punishment #democracies #i #like #punishment

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed. ↗

— James Prescott Joule

#evident #expressed #god #laws #less

The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion. ↗

— John Keegan

#about #beliefs #bothered #century #depressed

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#poorly #repressed #sexuality #some #well