#only

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip. ↗

— J. M. Barrie

#because #been #golden #hours #letting

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that. ↗

— J. M. Barrie

#every #every man #go #high #himself

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#often #only #out #people #person

I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#been #best #better #control #dislike

I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels.' Starting my production company was a big turning point for me. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#action movies #angels #being #big #charlie

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we." ↗

— Mark Twain

#editors #kings #only #people #presidents

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#alienation #day #escape #left #only

The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like. ↗

— John Barton

#belong #busier #children #close #community

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#age #energy #experience #his #less

There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#found #incurable #man #only #such