#irs

It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride. ↗

— John Mahoney

#dreary #everything #first #gray #i

Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#beast #beauty #became #best #best picture

Memoir today is like one big game of misery poker: The more outlandish, outrageous, or just plain out-there the recounted life, the more likely the book is to attract the attention of reviewers, talk-show bookers, and, ultimately, the public. ↗

— Ben Yagoda

#life

I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going. ↗

— Barbara Mandrell

#believe #blesses #eager #feet #first

The first race is really just something that we will all need to get through. Until people see the cars in action I don't think they will understand how quick they will be, which means they are going to be tiring to drive. ↗

— Nigel Mansell

#cars #drive #first #get #going

I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker. ↗

— Kamisese Mara

#blackout #caused #contributed #crisis #deterioration

When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they'll say: 'You're going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.' ↗

— Kate Mara

#christian #figure #film #going #how

Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be. ↗

— Diego Maradona

#course #first #matches #more #perhaps

Every noble work is at first impossible. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#every #first #impossible #noble

Back in '96, I was on 'The Price Is Right' pointing at refrigerators, and 'Extra,' the TV show, came down. They were the first entertainment entity that put people up on the Internet, so they put my picture up, and America Online called the next day and said I got a zillion or whatever downloads. I didn't know what a download was! ↗

— Cindy Margolis

#back #called #came #day #down