#ge

In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#already #away #borders #closer #conquest

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#actual #brought #curious #experience #facts

Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well. ↗

— Charles Van Doren

#aristotle #describe #ethics #happiness #his

Back then, it was more or less we couldn't change a line in our script. We weren't allowed to change lines. Today, actors change everything and won't do parts. It's very different today. Back then, the producers were in charge. Today actors are more in charge. ↗

— Donna Douglas

#back #change #charge #different #everything

A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby. ↗

— Don Drysdale

#badly #cancer #face #facts #gets

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#current #heightened #language #poetical #should

Our people can draw on the tremendous strides made in recent years, not only in terms of advancing themselves spiritually and materially, but also in having weathered social and economic turbulence, triggered, in the main, by factors not of their own creation. ↗

— Denzil Douglas

#also #creation #draw #economic #factors

I accomplished something big and that's a memory I will never forget. ↗

— Gabby Douglas

#big #forget #i #memory #never

I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt. ↗

— Gabby Douglas

#belt #continue #fresh #get #gymnastics

I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#go #good #i #mind #set