#old

Aunt Prue was holding one of the squirrels in her hand, while it sucked ferociously on the end of the dropper. 'And once a day, we have ta clean their little private parts with a Q-tip, so they'll learn ta clean themselves.' That was a visual I didn't need. 'How could you possibly know that?' 'We looked it up on the E-nternet.' Aunt Mercy smiled proudly. I couldn't imagine how my aunts knew anything about the Internet. The Sisters didn't even own a toaster oven. 'How did you get on the Internet?' 'Thelma took us ta the library and Miss Marian helped us. They have computers over there. Did you know that? ↗

— Kami Garcia

#old-aunts #squirrels #useless-information #beauty

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#back #bad #banished #being #civility

It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It's a funny old hippie thing, but it's true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#find #funny #hippie #learn #lot

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#find #how #jump #out #unfold

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#book #dead #died #friends #guts

When you're older you want to learn from other people. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#older #other #people #want #you

I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#cbs #cbs news #elements #how #i

They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but for most people, by the time it's ready to eat, they just don't fancy it any more. ↗

— Jo Brand

#best #by the time #cold #dish #eat

The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#enough #imbued #impossible #interest #new

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same. ↗

— Toni Braxton

#changes #fashion #i #like #music