#old

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#easier #generally #good #heroes #novelists

I sold my life to Capitol Records; it sucks. ↗

— Melissa Auf der Maur

#i #life #my life #records #sold

What I've found is that there is a tremendous interest in these issues, across the political spectrum, sort of left-right terms we used to describe people don't really hold here exactly. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#describe #exactly #found #here #hold

I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#considered #did #doing #email #had

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#brothers #great #had #i #interest

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs. ↗

— Desmond Morris

#cats #dogs #like #soldiers

He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#always #around #because #body #concern

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ↗

— George Orwell

#beliefs #both #contradictory #holding #means

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#hold #past #present #seems #sometimes

I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#get #i #i am #old #sweet