#old

It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience. ↗

— D. W. Griffith

#about #actor #actress #art #audience

'Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did. ↗

— Andrew Gross

#blind #book #book tour #car #crazy

Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#all things #exhort #faithfully #god #household

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender. ↗

— Philip Guedalla

#arrangement #divisible #henry #henry james #i

I remember; I was 15 years old when Neil Armstrong put feet in the moon. ↗

— Umberto Guidoni

#feet #i #i remember #moon #neil

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#around #assumed #cut #dying #early

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old. ↗

— Steve Hackett

#classical music #hundred #least #music #obviously

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#growing-older #passage-of-time #tempus-fugit #age

First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them. ↗

— Otto Hahn

#breathing #devices #dying #easier #fellows

At one point in my career, while still hosting 'The Arsenio Hall Show,' I was told by my doctor that it might not be physically possible for me to have children. ↗

— Arsenio Hall

#children #doctor #hall #hosting #i