#age

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#chronic #contentment #drunkenness #good #humor

If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#away #both #center #cross #does

I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there. ↗

— Eric Bana

#i #i think #keeping #luck #nothing

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#actions #base #based #images #most

I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor. ↗

— Ashleigh Banfield

#another #because #courageous #endeavor #fight

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#about #actually #century #family #great

My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#biggest #cartoons #comes #fans #going

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#had #impulsive #instead #marriage #short-lived

A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#lasts #marriage #necessarily #successful #until

But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#anger #could #did #expressing #film