#behind

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#every #man #mother-in-law #stands #successful

All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance. ↗

— Gianni Agnelli

#behind #going #had #infinitely #instance

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead. ↗

— James Joyce

#behind #forehead #fought #inspired #material

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#afraid #behind #doors #feel #i

I don’t take my life seriously, but I do take what I do – in my life – seriously - ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#olga-lednichenko #life

If I could live my life all over I'd do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there's no way lord, to leave this love behind. ↗

— Al Green

#camera #could #everything #film #i

Her stare fixed me. Without rancour and without regret; without triumph and without evil; as Desdemona once looked back on Venice. On the incomprehension, the baffled rage of Venice. I had taken myself to be in some way the traitor Iago punished, in an unwritten sixth act. Chained in hell. But I was also Venice; the state left behind; the thing journeyed from. ↗

— John Fowles

#distance #othello #outgrowing-others #personal-growth #reference-to-shakespeare

I'm not such a big star. I am just a little planet. In Spain, people don't put so much attention on the star system. But here in America, I can feel it. Mostly, people are very, very nice. But there are also a bunch of fanatics behind the stars. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#am #america #attention #behind #big

I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#corporate #devalued #disingenuous #disrespected #energy

A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me. ↗

— Edie Brickell

#beautiful woman #behind #car #dirty #down