#ago

Do you know it was a year a ago today? ↗

— Jay London

#do you know #know #today #year #you

The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis. ↗

— William Jackson

#based #characters #chicago #combinations #degree

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability. ↗

— LeBron James

#athletic #back #called #dragons #east

Well, it is true that they did - the Pentagon did impose rules for governing the handling of the Koran in January of 2003, after there had been complaints about the handling of the Koran from detainees, from the International Red Cross. ↗

— Michael Isikoff

#after #been #complaints #cross #detainees

My agent said to me five years ago, 'Hugh, I can see one day you... if I had to plan a goal for you, it's for you to have the kind of career that Sinatra had.' ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#ago #career #day #five #goal

I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#back #both #both sides #bread #buttered

Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his, but he's the one who's buried, while I get to enjoy at least a few more hours above the ground. Is it chance, random and cruel, or is there some purpose or pattern to all this, even if it lies beyond our ken?" -Roran ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#eragon #inheritance #inheritance-cycle #inspirational #life

Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#could #doing #even #know #things

But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#ago #asked #come #course #done

I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up. ↗

— LeBron James

#chicago #fan #growing #growing up #i