#old

I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre. ↗

— Steven Chu

#average #brother #comparison #cumulative #decidedly

I think right now, you've seen these artists pop up over the last decade who've flirted with branching together a lot of different kinds of music. Some of them have been huge, and sold millions of records. And I think over time it's become a little bit of what the industry can be. ↗

— Eric Church

#become #been #bit #decade #different

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older. ↗

— Jill Clayburgh

#bugs #get #how #interesting #me

It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#both #different #grandmothers #had #household

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#grinder #hold #monkey #never #organ

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#energies #left #new #new world #old

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#british #how #like #nation #only

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#old #short #words

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. ↗

— John Ciardi

#dependence #excitement #habituation #label #love is

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#high-tech #how #improve #just #lives