#ages

O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. ↗

— William Cowper

#charms #dwell #face #horrible #midst

Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#baseball #batting #call #cards #could

You have to remember when we were going once a month, we were putting out issues that were 480 pages, and people were complaining that these were too big, I can't get through a 480 page magazine every month. ↗

— James Daly

#complaining #every #get #going #i

I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football. ↗

— Alan Davies

#i #inclined #linger #magazine #more

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images. ↗

— Agnes Varda

#i #images #interested #just #looking

Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#go #gold #i #inside #laughs

Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#commissioners #convictions #governments #happened #marriage

I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I'm gonna rip it off. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#crave #dosages #gonna #i #longer

Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture. ↗

— Cecil B. DeMille

#bible #give #give me #i #me

I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#bergman #created #film #foreign #i