#sword

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#doing #egotism #new #new york #new york times

I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#film #i #insist #keep #me

I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#before #done #film #full #given

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#body #born #genre #head #her

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#conquered #forces #long #long run #only

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#each #face #hero #his #light

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. ↗

— Gordon W. Allport

#hopeless #laughter #life #many #other

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. ↗

— Buddha

#doubt #dreadful #friendships #habit #hurts

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. ↗

— John Bunyan

#get #give #him #i #me

I got into my very theatrical phase. I wore only black: a big black hat and wild hair and wild black clothes, and I carried a sword stick. I went there still looking like Miss Florida, and I came back looking very different. ↗

— Delta Burke

#big #black #black hat #came #carried