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“If any good comes out of the current famine in the Horn of Africa - amidst the pictures of mothers carrying dying babies at their shrivelled breasts and hollow-eyed children with swollen bellies and matchstick limbs - it will be galvanising the world on the need to ensure access to nutritious food for the world's most vulnerable people.”

People Ifs World Needs Children Mother Dying Baby Currents Access Vulnerable Breasts Belly Limbs Hollow Horns Famine Swollen Matchsticks Horn Of Africa

Author:Josette Sheeran

“Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.”

Used Red Teenager Perfume Lipstick Eyeliner Matchsticks

Author:Dolly Parton

“Atheists blame religion when priests do wrong. Anything can be misused, whether it is nuclear power or a matchstick. So, how can I blame religion? Patriotism too can be misused, by misinforming others and eliminating people, so do we start hating the country?”

People Country Hate Blame Atheist Nuclear Priests Eliminating Nuclear Power Misused Matchsticks

Author:Asghar Ali Engineer

“Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.”

Building Wave Protest Building Up Matchsticks

Author:Alain de Botton

“For God's sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs?”

Thinking Want Mark Sake Legs Glances Matchsticks

Book:Seduce Me at Sunrise

Source: Seduce Me at Sunrise

“I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?"”

Heart Sin Bears My Heart Boxes Smoke Heat Islamic Pockets Slips Palms Unbearable Hereafter Matchsticks

Author:Muhammad Ali

“In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit prisons, broke up matchsticks and used the fragments as tallies. As I approached the end of my sentences I grew more confident of my powers of memory, and began writing down and memorizing prose-dialogue at first, but then, bit by bit, whole densely written passages. My memory found room for them! It worked. But more and more of my time-in the end as much as one week every month-went into the regular repetition of all I had memorized.”

“I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwynn.”

Courses Race Horse Intention Legs Englishmen Jockeys Matchsticks

Author:Gilbert Harding

“Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match. You may live, but you're still an idiot.”

May Stills Ideas Running Funny Choices Individual Investment Burning Idiot Factories Dynamite Dilettantes Matchsticks

Author:Joel Greenblatt