#form

I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey. ↗

— Steven Chu

#baseball #basketball #children #developed #football

I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre. ↗

— Steven Chu

#average #brother #comparison #cumulative #decidedly

Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

#appeals #attention #attention deficit #attention span #because

Last summer when we were preparing for the movie, I actually kind of wanted to stay fairly uninformed about it. As we went through the process that we do in the movie, I wanted to be a little wide-eyed. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

#actually #fairly #i #kind #last

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#bear #cannot #dejected #endure #equal

The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued. ↗

— Thomas Kuhn

#becomes #clear #crises #feared #force

If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#complicated #continuum #cuts #death #doing

You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#because #days #doing #eight #exact

In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#classical #classical music #cycle #development #end

Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But the very form of stand-up is masculine. ↗

— Kate Clinton

#because #cheaper #drawn #form #lesbians