#now

Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#be a man #being #being a girl #body #fights

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#gone #health #industry #knowledge #lost

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#conquered #entirely #knowledge #labor #our

The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes. ↗

— David Simon

#actual #care #emotional #every #go

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#behave #certain #changing #clouds #dances

Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18. ↗

— Neil Simon

#always #came #day #first #his

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending. ↗

— Neil Simon

#ending #entertainment #go #how #know

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen. ↗

— Paul Simon

#how #humble #know #pen #place

Well, darling, you can have your tearoom now. ↗

— Norton Simon

#now #well #you #your

Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio. ↗

— Paul Simon

#dimaggio #joe #joe dimaggio #little #mrs