#age

Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#happy #hear #last #life #phone

Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#fear #heroism #courage

Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me. ↗

— Lilly Ledbetter

#alabama #decades #doing #found #hard

Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#happiness #life #light #loss #tragedy

INTOLERANCE (1916) Griffith's design for this film is to juxtapose fours stories from different periods of history that illustrate 'Love's struggle throughout the ages'. ↗

— Steven Jay Schneider

#age

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#bigger #envisaged #future #i #much

Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another. ↗

— Iain Banks

#safety #story #technology #trope #age

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#clearly #diction #early #early age #english

There was an electric anger in his gaze, and a sort of challenge that made Simon long to hit him with something heavy. Like a pickup truck. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#rage #anger

We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments. ↗

— Joshua Leonard

#down #ended #everything #film #footage