"[If] you are ready enough to pull my knitting to pieces, but provide none of your own, the only sock is a sock in the jaw!"

-- J. R. Ackerley

#Knitting Quotes #Criticism Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“When you start doing television, you want a transcript of what you're going to say, and every time I've had to do that, I've looked at it and gone, "That's just not funny." It only comes alive when you speak it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I am sometimes perplexed by people who refer to defensive rifles, or defensive rifle shooting. The defensive arm is the pistol, since you have it at hand to meet situations that you do not anticipate. If you have the luxury of anticipating a lethal encounter, you pick up a long arm, either a rifle or a shotgun, but in that case you go on to the attack. Thus rifle shooting is offensive, and pistol shooting is defensive. Of course, life does not always duplicate theory, and there are exceptions to everything, but nevertheless the rifle is not a defensive weapon in concept.”
“Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.”

Source : Frederick Tennyson (1854). “Days and hours [poems].”, p.62
“For plain and fancy worrying, give me a new mother every time.”
“The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.”
“It's a humbling thing being humble.”
“Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.”
“A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.”

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