#ridge

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#boxes #carry #cartridge #cartridges #grub

I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them. ↗

— Mark Shields

#advocate #any #bridge #build #committees

I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#cambridge #englishman #every #i #lived

I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#cooking #dad #excellent #fridge #his

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#burns #fire #makes #nice #very

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. ↗

— Phyllis Theroux

#bridge #inexperience #mistakes #usual #wisdom

He ought to buy her a new dress. She would never accept it, of course, but maybe if her current garments were accidentally burned... ...But how could he manage to burn her dress? She’d have to not be wearing it, and that posed a certain challenge in and of itself... ↗

— Julia Quinn

#humor #humor

Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#bridget #humor #sisterhood #humor

For some reason I believed that if you fell in love it was a guaranteed thing that your path would cross with his, and I never wondered how if would feel to fall in love with a man whose future just couldn't include you. ↗

— Laura Pritchett

#guarantees #sky-bridge #love

Look, my dad has a saying - we'll burn that bridge when get to it. OK? You get it? Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow. ↗

— Barry Lyga

#procrastination #procrastination