#bash

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. ↗

— Aristotle

#bashfulness #old #old age #ornament #reproach

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals. ↗

— Jeff Buckley

#age #audacious #bashed #being #coals

We are so lucky Americans are impressive with what they're willing to give. We get bashed too much. And, so many young people in this country give so much. They're not all gang bangers. ↗

— Jami Gertz

#country #gang #get #give #impressive

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics. ↗

— John Grisham

#bashed #critics #fiction #get #going

I decided to write the book I wanted to read ↗

— David A. Lottes

#coming-of-age-stories #french-in-north-america #frontier-and-pioneer-life #historical-fiction #native-americans

Do not seek to walk in the footsteps of the wise men of old, seek what they sought. ↗

— Matsuo Bashō

#seek #wise-men #men

The bashful are always aggressive at heart. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#always #bashful #heart

Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, Nature was his book. ↗

— Robert Bloomfield

#book #fields #his #look #nature

I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse. ↗

— Juan Manuel Fangio

#ball #bash #billiards #cue #drive

I wanted to support things that are helpful to people and maybe bash what I think is dangerous. So I switched from being everybody to being myself. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#being #being myself #dangerous #everybody #helpful