#age

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#beyond #delights #going #grasp #known

Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them. ↗

— Melvin Burgess

#being #being a teenager #difficult #hard #living

I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin. ↗

— Cameron van der Burgh

#age #been #change #first #first time

If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I have never met such a man. ↗

— Billie Burke

#better #ever #him #i #i love

There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career. ↗

— Billie Burke

#career #compel #forego #her #marriage

I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#interesting #interesting people #languages #latin #like

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#chances #commitment #dancing #even #famous

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#any #ballet #classes #control #discipline

When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#black #eyes #faces #front #get

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language. ↗

— Kenneth Burke

#how #language #light #nature #our