#roll

Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse. ↗

— Peter King

#america #controlled #council #department #even

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#blow #brains #come #cut #go

Obviously, a skirt does present certain problems that I had to be aware of. But when it came to the shoot and we were rolling, I didn't really pay it any attention. It wasn't too bad. ↗

— Chiaki Kuriyama

#attention #aware #bad #came #certain

Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country. ↗

— Emir Kusturica

#awful #basketball #beautiful #became #country

God tipped the country and all the fruits and nuts rolled west. ↗

— Mike Royko

#fruits #god #nuts #rolled #tipped

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#before #chew #fiction #funky #ideas

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#mind #processes #realize #soothing #uncontrollable

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#defense #freedom #frightens #manner #mechanisms

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#creative #force #rather #reason #than

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#chair #controlled #government #i #want