#rot

The German Air Force was not sufficient to protect the sea crossing on its own. While the leading part of the forces might have landed, there was the danger that they might be cut off from supplies and reinforcements. ↗

— Gerd von Rundstedt

#air force #crossing #cut #danger #force

The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now. ↗

— Jimmy Rushing

#brotherly #business #carry #certain #love

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. ↗

— Bayard Rustin

#act #being #confers #dignity #him

Most of the contract people at MGM stayed and stayed and stayed. Why? Because the studio looked after them. Warner Brothers wouldn't - they were always spanking somebody or selling them down the river. ↗

— Ann Rutherford

#always #because #brothers #contract #down

I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer. ↗

— Lee Ryan

#band #boy #brought #cards #famous

Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#allowing #areas #attacks #budget #commerce

Will you dance for me? Let your breasts roam for a moment -- I need to see how they dance.' 'Okay.' She danced, and as she danced, she tried to think of the most delicious salads she could imagine -- with artichokes and sundried tomato and blue cheese dressing, and beets, lots of beets. ↗

— Nicholson Baker

#beets #erotica #food #humor #salad

I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#better #could #fiction #getting #i

Tell me what I am to you.” …“Oh honey, you’re the man I call when I need a ride. ↗

— Kimberly Dean

#kimberly-dean #ride-of-her-life #life

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#english #englishmen #exceptions #found #french