#ge

If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#being #children #coming #could #fit

In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#bread #family #meat #middle #older

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#bit #city #consists #discovered #finally

I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable. ↗

— Aidan Quinn

#fame #find #get #i #level

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#clearest #explanation #failure #female #incompatible

I never really followed grunge. ↗

— Robert Quine

#grunge #i #never #really

I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands. ↗

— Robert Quine

#answered #auditioning #band #bands #days

Language is a social art. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#language #social

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#exhibits #labels #languages #meanings #museum

My agent was ambitious for me. But going out and chasing it? No, I'd rather work in my vegetable garden or play with my kid. I guess I'm kind of boring. ↗

— Kathleen Quinlan

#ambitious #boring #chasing #garden #going