#ground

Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing. ↗

— Joseph Stefano

#had #hitch #i #ideas #interested

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#down #ground #hill #looking #nearer

When I go home, its an easy way to be grounded. You learn to realize what truly matters. ↗

— Tony Stewart

#easy #easy way #go #go home #grounded

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#aristocracy #background #chivalry #civilization #exalted

News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#actually #background #conflict #darker #day

I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level; otherwise it gets a bit frustrating. ↗

— Andy Summers

#cover #discuss #frustrating #gets #ground

Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed. ↗

— David Suzuki

#accustomed #argue #become #build #coal

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#back #book #comes #doing #goes

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#books #finding #four #great #i

If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling. ↗

— Alan Thicke

#counseling #first #ground #offense #second