#ears

I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years. ↗

— Mickey Rooney

#i #thirty #years

Diving has been in the game for years. Probably the coverage the game gets now, with all the cameras around, it gets highlighted a bit more. But it hasn't got any worse. ↗

— Wayne Rooney

#around #been #bit #cameras #coverage

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#life #like #many #my life #opposition

I went to Spago once, eight years ago. I had just closed a deal. I thought it would be fun to go to Spago and it wasn't. I got a bad table and nobody paid any attention to me. ↗

— Michael Tolkin

#any #attention #bad #closed #deal

Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was. ↗

— Stephen Root

#because #being #business #character #character actor

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#cracked #crude #dance #human #kettle

There are years that ask questions and years that answer. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#ask #questions #years

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth. ↗

— James Thurber

#before #believe #birth #cases #died

My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed. ↗

— Jennifer Tilly

#chew #classy #comic #comic books #dyed

I think, over the years, I've kind of evolved. ↗

— Carrot Top

#i #i think #kind #over #think