#wall

I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#david #education #embarrassed #foster #gap

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#church #face #feeling #go #mecca

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#both #danger #displays #having #his

It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon. ↗

— Dawn French

#because #cake #cornwall #devon #eat

I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#did #drinking #guinness #i #swallow

Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country's taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#become #capitalism #country #embrace #finance

When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#been #brick #brick wall #convinced #divided

We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse. ↗

— George Galloway

#before #down #fall #feel #feels

A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf. ↗

— Michael Gambon

#child #cornwall #did #i #me

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#dad #each #eccentricity #felt #grew