#gettin

I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the bureau. And somebody walked in and said the first plane had - or a plane had struck the World Trade Center, one of the towers. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#center #first #getting #had #i

I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore. ↗

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

#bananas #buy #even #getting #green

My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it's definitely tough getting through. ↗

— Pamela Anderson

#dad #definitely #getting #i #lifetime

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#getting #me #novel #perfect #point

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen. ↗

— Sally Ride

#explosion #getting #happen #into #launch

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good. ↗

— Aaron Sorkin

#bad #getting #good #guess #mass

I think my independence was a big help to getting Judges Roberts and Alito confirmed, and I think that's recognized. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#confirmed #getting #help #i #i think

What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older. ↗

— Russell Banks

#audience #finding #get #getting #good

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#getting-old #middle-age-spread #wearing-out #age

His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises clean. But he does not care to do so, or does not care enough"(72). ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#getting-older #old-age #age