#age

All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#girl #give #give me #la #life

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#days #decline #first #immortality #life

Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent. ↗

— Jared Sparks

#anything #civil #civil government #enlightened #experience

A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#ask #gets #letters #manuscripts #might

Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#close #door #drafts #either #ever

In my day, at 12 years old, which was 38 years ago, we worked out in summer months for two and a half hours. Today someone in that age group might work out for four hours, two hours in the morning and two at night. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#age group #ago #day #four #group

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right. ↗

— Billy Graham

#going #i #last #out #page

In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#digital #frontal #full #i #learned

An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, she's too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn't stand hearing me any more! ↗

— Marla Sokoloff

#agent #annoying #any #became #did

I'm pretty sure this is it for the teen movie thing. It's so frustrating to read when you get to page 20 and you're like, Oy! It's the same thing again! ↗

— Marla Sokoloff

#frustrating #get #i #like #movie