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We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it? ↗

— David Brin

#does #elephant #enough #getting #heartbeats

Basically he never went to work and didn't have a job. Of course I thought he did. I thought he was on the phone doing business deals instead of borrowing money from people. ↗

— Christie Brinkley

#borrowing #business #course #deals #did

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#carpet #end #huge #like #me

The people I choose to work with, I work with because I'm already impressed with them, you know? ↗

— Jon Brion

#because #choose #i #impressed #know

I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him 4-2. ↗

— Eric Bristow

#australia #beating #best #cup #down

You can't make everybody happy. We just put our head down and went forward. We said, 'This music is bigger than all of us.' That's how we felt. We said, 'You know what? We'll prevail. We'll bet on these songs.' ↗

— Jonathan Cain

#bigger #down #everybody #felt #forward

The Crafty Cockney had a picture of the owner dressed up as a copper, so I brought it home, wore it on TV and the name just stuck. ↗

— Eric Bristow

#cockney #copper #crafty #dressed #had

Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#dictators #i #islamic #islamic world #khomeini

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#age #century #end #having #leaders

When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#called #father #found #had #him