#ape

To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape. ↗

— Jennifer Capriati

#grand #grand slams #mind #physical #right

But we ought to consider the natural form and shape of a horse, that we may work him according to nature. ↗

— William Cavendish

#consider #form #him #horse #may

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#anticipated #attractions #based #began #book

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#escapes #glad #hopes #life #often

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives. ↗

— Robert Caro

#because #biography #democracy #examine #famous

Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day. ↗

— Robert Caro

#day #every #every day #example #how

I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself. ↗

— John le Carre

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off. ↗

— Johnny Carson

#calls #continue #days #death #fingernails

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#because #control #create #escape #got

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper. ↗

— Pablo Casals

#heart #melody #never #paper #put