#dl

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.' ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#blow #cake #candle #get #getting

When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't that wrong. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young erode. We end up all belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#middle-age #age

Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#absurdly #all things #become #beneath #earth

The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution. ↗

— Matt Lauer

#constitution #deadline #draft #failed #final

The guest gets at least as much service with us as with some established airline, if not even more. And at by far a favourable price. Thus the passengers remain gladly with us. ↗

— Niki Lauda

#established #even #far #favourable #gets

It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#country #duty #expending #finance #government

I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#absurdly #am #amp #artistic #been

There is nothing likely to get you a bigger headline than attacking your own party. ↗

— Michael Laws

#bigger #get #headline #likely #nothing

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. ↗

— Timothy Leary

#another #doing #groove #like #move

You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. ↗

— Timothy Leary

#another #groove #move #needle #pick