#nineteen

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#century #few #few people #needed #nineteenth

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen. ↗

— Bert Campaneris

#leagues #made #major #major leagues #never

Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#budget #days #difficult #even #extremely

Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth century novel. There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world. Then too there were lots of weddings in Wharton and Austen. There were all kinds of irresistible gloomy men. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#literary-criticism #literary-theory #narrative #nineteenth-century #novels

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#african #allen #ambivalent #american #been

I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#been #city #day #doing #else

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war. ↗

— Robert Higgs

#century #earlier #end #going #intentions

I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#life #nineteen #road #years #death

I was all alone, you were all I had. Love you, you were all mine. Love me, I was yours right. I was yours right. ↗

— Tegan Quin

#sara-quin #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin #the-con #love

Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore. ↗

— Olga Korbut

#anything #because #coach #disappointed #friend