#of

There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life. ↗

— Sean Astin

#being #combination #could #desperate #else

With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office. ↗

— Louis Auchincloss

#brow #brown #clean #committee #conventions

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it. ↗

— Frank Auerbach

#considered #day #destroy #every #every day

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#begun #common #entirely #europe #even

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. ↗

— Roger Babson

#finest #language #nothing #often #saying

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. ↗

— Richard Bach

#grow #grow up #members #rarely #roof

That love is all there is, Is all we know of love. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#love

Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became. ↗

— Douglas Bader

#danger #desperate #fear #had #how

The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably. ↗

— John Badham

#bad #considerably #diminished #enough #free

The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization. ↗

— Mitchell Baker

#independent #mozilla #nonprofit #organization