#cade

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#any #cleverness #decadence #except #incapable

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#easy #even #get #made #members

Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#academics #among #dead #favor #males

The 1970s - I was ten in 1975 - were a bad decade in all sorts of ways but the middle class had comfortable assumptions about the prospects for its children. The middle class was smaller then; it was a much less competitive Britain, less meritocratic. ↗

— David Miliband

#assumptions #bad #britain #children #class

The last decade has been a little rough, so I'm hoping to start this one on the right foot. ↗

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

#decade #foot #hoping #i #last

I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable. ↗

— Pat Morita

#academy award #actor #award #awkward #being

I was always more of an academic than a jock. ↗

— Edwin Moses

#always #i #jock #more #than

Well, that was in 1995 when I resigned from my last academic job. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#i #job #last #resigned #well

We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections. ↗

— Ralph Neas

#believe #bush #clock #decades #gave

Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#ago #available #camera #carried #decade