#age

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning. ↗

— Laura Bush

#books #fascinating #goes #hand-in-hand #holding

It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#been #hollywood #i #joke #marriage

To me, I think people who don't think it's a big deal to toss a plastic bottle in the garbage are not only being irresponsible, but I think they're being disrespectful of all the other humans on earth. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#big #big deal #bottle #deal #disrespectful

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time. ↗

— David Byrne

#astronaut #i #preferably #same #secret

I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.' ↗

— David Byrne

#call #civic #distance #doing #engagement

There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior. ↗

— David Byrne

#behavior #done #encourages #invites #kind

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#litigation #middle #middle age #place #sex

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#human nature #itself #language #nature #none

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. ↗

— Lord Byron

#best #best intentions #bodies #intentions #inventions

That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt. ↗

— Hall Caine

#carries #circle #corrupt #cry #expression