#bout

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#absolutely #absolutely nothing #boats #doing #half

I gave my life to Christ about 1991. ↗

— Lou Gramm

#christ #gave #i #life #my life

I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking carpet fuzz and watching spinning plates for hours. I didn't want to be touched. I couldn't shut out background noise. I didn't talk until I was about 4 years old. I screamed. I hummed. But as I grew up, I improved. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#am #autistic #background #behaviors #carpet

The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can't afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing that the sooner we act, the less painful the choices will be. ↗

— Judd Gregg

#act #afford #budgetary #choices #get

I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves. ↗

— Pam Grier

#air #air force #brat #community #country

In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy. ↗

— David Horowitz

#based #because #could #economy #false

It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience. ↗

— D. W. Griffith

#about #actor #actress #art #audience

When I was 34, people would say, What's going to happen to you when you're 40? What are you going to do? You don't have much time left. And I was like, what are you talking about? ↗

— Melanie Griffith

#going #happen #i #left #like

You know who helped me a lot? Jane Fonda. She said, Look at how many times I've been up and I've been down. So don't worry about anything. ↗

— Melanie Griffith

#anything #been #down #fonda #helped

Every time I've talked about my family in the past, people have ended up getting upset. So I said to my friends and family: 'I shan't refer to you at all, and there's nothing for you to get upset about. There's the deal.' ↗

— Richard Griffiths

#deal #ended #every #every time #family