#age

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. ↗

— George Saunders

#aspire #die #fail #pontificate #posture

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#decline #had #languages #their

The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#bad news #died #exclusive #fire #footage

The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#coverage #discriminating #more #viewer

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#get #real #real world #reality #removed

Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles. ↗

— Farrah Fawcett

#last #live #los #los angeles #marriages

Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand. ↗

— Ferdowsi

#could #elephants #helmet #host #jewels

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#behind #come #crap #free #free press

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#community #does #especially #fellow #fellow men

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain. ↗

— Ronald Firbank

#dreadfully #hardly #knows #managed #whom