#age

I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me. ↗

— Oksana Baiul

#become #been #different #easy #hard

The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons, tossing them out fiftieth-story windows, and opening the phones for bids. In this game you were a winner only if you took your money out before the melon hit the pavement. ↗

— Matt Taibbi

#age

I hover over the expensive Scotch and then the Armagnac, but finally settle on a glass of rich red claret. I put it near my nose and nearly pass out. It smells of old houses and aged wood and dark secrets, but also of hard, hot sunshine through ancient shutters and long, wicked afternoons in a four-poster bed. It's not a wine, it's a life, right there in the glass. ↗

— Nick Harkaway

#smell #wine #age

I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

#animation #first #had #having #i

Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

#american kids #fantasy #had #homage #i

I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#boring things #charging #come #creating #fascinating

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#conscious #country #rage #relatively #time

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#born #changed #changes #eager #go

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#control #describing #every #function #language

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience. ↗

— Stanley Baldwin

#believe #courage #experience #first #me