#com

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. ↗

— George Bancroft

#consent #crown #envy #excite #glory

It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise. ↗

— William Banting

#appetite #compelled #consequently #exercise #forsake

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#accomplish #become #child #dreams #face

When a business becomes successful seemingly overnight, no one knows about all the months and years you've invested, all the projects you've tried before that didn't work. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#becomes #before #business #invested #knows

I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#any #back #better #come #deliver

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes. ↗

— Dave Barry

#after #come #offending #people #problem

And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?' ↗

— Javier Bardem

#after #back #come #doing #go

The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I'm a shy person, even if I don't look it. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#because #comfortable #costs #doing #even

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. ↗

— Mark Twain

#comes #information #interesting #know #most

When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#buy #companies #could #free #good