#ay

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. ↗

— Jane Austen

#ever #incomprehensible #man #marriage #offer

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. ↗

— Jane Austen

#cannot #laughing #man #now #now and then

It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me. ↗

— Paul Auster

#because #break #circle #difficult #extremely

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. ↗

— Paul Auster

#bread #contemporary #earn #food #french

But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#agreement #barren #co-operation #discovery #fun

I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships. ↗

— Tracy Austin

#championships #coast #i #indoor #pacific

My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four. ↗

— Tracy Austin

#five #four #i #many #opposites

To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis. ↗

— Tracy Austin

#i #meet #playing #tennis #up

These kids today, everything is about hitting a vocal home run. ↗

— Frankie Avalon

#everything #hitting #home #home run #kids

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#boring #going #more #nothing #old