#age

It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#been #central #children #country #eagerly

The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#behind #doing #dream #fortune #going

Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#communism #employment #fully #institution #investment

We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#been #black #canadian #descended #engage

Restoring the Welsh language in Wales is nothing less than a revolution. It is only through revolutionary means that we can succeed. ↗

— Saunders Lewis

#less #means #nothing #only #restoring

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#belong #colors #divine #done #hundred

A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#business #company #even #guys #hip

I'm asthmatic. I was a lot bigger back then, and I still get winded on stage today. But I've learned how to pace it now. I have musical breaks in there. ↗

— Meat Loaf

#back #bigger #breaks #get #how

Late middle age, he was coming to understand, was a time of life when everything was predictable and yet somehow you failed to see any of it coming. ↗

— Richard Russo

#age

If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war. ↗

— Belva Lockwood

#could #court #depend #fair #impartial