#age

There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me" - Maester Cressen ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#lazy #old-age #stairs #steps #age

This problem - it is age old. To do what is right and save the day without destroying the very thing the day is lived for. ↗

— Christopher Pike

#age

Privately he called them a couple of puffed-up, dressed-up, made-up, stuck-up, brainless parakeets. ↗

— Shirley Hughes

#humor #age

Your pillow alone may be home to 40 million bed mites. (To them your head is just one large oily bon-bon). And don't think a clean pillow-case will make a difference... Indeed, if your pillow is six years old--which is apparently about the average age for a pillow--it has been estimated that one-tenth of its weight will be made up of sloughed skin, living mites, dead mites and mite dung. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#age

Using your mind is a faster method to getting what you want. I mean, all you have to do is sit there. What could be easier? ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#age

The magic of autumn has seized the countryside; now that the sun isn't ripening anything it shines for the sake of the golden age; for the sake of Eden; to please the moon for all I know. ↗

— Elizabeth Coatsworth

#golden-age #moon #sun #age

I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written. ↗

— George Orwell

#age

You live in a deranged age - more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. ↗

— Walker Percy

#existentialism #philosophy #age

But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#charm #youth #age