#bled

Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#beginning #civilization #communication #each #enabled

I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons. ↗

— Adam Jones

#dabbled #guitar #i #lessons #never

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ↗

— Shirley Jones

#after #became #butcher #children #doubled

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#books #doubled #lives #pleasure #reading

I have accomplished a lot, but it didn't happen overnight for me. I was 35 when I got the show, and had been working professionally for 15 years. It would be a lot weirder if I were in my early 20s and stumbled into it. ↗

— Eric McCormack

#been #early #early 20s #got #had

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#convicted #duty #ennobled #guilt #i

Everybody always talks about the pressure of playing at Wimbledon, how tough it is, but the people watching make it so much easier to play. ↗

— Andy Murray

#always #easier #everybody #how #make

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. ↗

— Jane Porter

#brightness #happiness #heart #itself #kindred

I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out. ↗

— David Prowse

#been #big #boost #campaign #disabled

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#because #cannot #condition #equally #grace