#old

We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot. ↗

— Arthur Blank

#ask #awful #billion #building #company

Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

#completed #down #every #harper #i

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

#does #horror #i #interest #know

I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

#book #first #had #i #idea

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. ↗

— Alan Bleasdale

#body #combine #exercise #heart #keep

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.' ↗

— Richard Dreyfuss

#already #because #community #decided #got

I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process. ↗

— Alexis Bledel

#fascinating #getting #getting older #i #i think

We started seven years ago and finally released our first vintage in March. It's an '07 vintage from Walla Walla, which is my old hometown. It also happens to be a world-class wine region that's just exploding on the scene right now. ↗

— Drew Bledsoe

#also #exploding #finally #first #happens

Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic. ↗

— Brenda Blethyn

#even #fantastic #glove #golden #hadn

Well, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's remember that the real motivation in the sixties, and even in the fifties, was the Cold War. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#cold #cold war #dealt #even #feel