#old

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#brain #creation #emotions #everything #felt

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#most #next #old #selfish #suppose

This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alaska. ↗

— Jeff Goldblum

#big #go #me #people #places

I hold head coaches accountable. ↗

— Roger Goodell

#coaches #head #hold #i

I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on. ↗

— Asa Gray

#difficulties #felt #foundation #had #hold

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#cold #continuity #dark #energy #grace

And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons. ↗

— Tony Greig

#coming #contract #end #had #happen

I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away. ↗

— Zane Grey

#cloak #dark #folded #gone #had

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death. ↗

— Zane Grey

#blood #cold #dark #death #embrace

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture. ↗

— George Grosz

#bourgeoisie #collapsing #culture #defend #keep