#age

At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

#cabbage #down #home #i #make

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.' ↗

— Tommy Cooper

#back #bad #bad back #doctor #got

I don't want to get in a big, long discussion about right and wrong, but our company has been working on the issue of underage drinking and alcohol abuse for a long time. I've been outspoken about it. ↗

— Pete Coors

#abuse #alcohol #been #big #company

This time it was the sentence opening the last part of a story I had worked on for months: a sentence as is often worked off paper first. The pace of narrative and interest in character do not readily help the writer's hand to set down a sentence of that order. For though characters must take things in their own stride – somewhere in his story the writer cannot hold back this sentence that judges them. He wants it unobtrusive to his pace and the characters that caused him to write. The difficulty is to judge without seeming to be there, with a finality in the words that will make them casual and part of the story itself, except perhaps to another age. ↗

— Louis Zukofsky

#writing #age

I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#i #i remember #me #out #really

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. ↗

— Aristotle

#education #learning #old-age #prosperity #age

And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid. ↗

— John Cornyn

#fact #harry #harry reid #home #like

It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up. ↗

— Piers Corbyn

#around #carbon #carbon dioxide #case #dioxide

My view is that climate changes have happened in the last 80 years, that is, the world has got a little bit warmer, although not as warm as it has been in Medieval times, or the Bronze Age. ↗

— Piers Corbyn

#although #been #bit #bronze #changes

My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#confidence #did #each #entire #gift