#la

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#grow #old #playing #stop

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#conclusion #economists #end #laid #never

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#combines #marriage #maximum #opportunity #popular

You don't need to diet, She-Body. You are a just-right female." "McNab?" Eve said. "Yes, sir." "Shut up." "It's all right, Dallas. We're a couple." "A couple of what? No, don't tell me. Don't talk to me. Don't talk to each other. Let there be silence across the land. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#mcnab #peabody #silence-across-the-land #death

I'm a fan of many different styles of classical and symphonic music. ↗

— Billy Sheehan

#different #different styles #fan #i #many

It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century. ↗

— William Labov

#african #african american #american #appears #century

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#every #every day #hour #late #learn

The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin. ↗

— Mark Shields

#competing #dozens #important #important thing #interests

I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#dalai lama #dream #dreamt #i #lama

For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#became #enough #even #flaming #going