#other

It gave her a sudden sense that it was now her turn to grow old, to find the world changing, sliding away from the old ways of being and behaving, so that you were gradually a stranger to the place you lived in. The woman priest with jogging clothes and a BlackBerry gave Mary a glimpse of what life must have been like for her mother as she grew older. ↗

— John Lanchester

#mother #old #stranger #age

My mother told me never explain, never complain. Even as a young actress, I determined I would never give personal interviews, since they made me so uncomfortable. ↗

— Jennifer Jones

#complain #determined #even #explain #give

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#first #first of all #god #heaven #known

One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

#before #enemy #force #must #resisted

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. ↗

— James Joyce

#better #boldly #fade #full #glory

In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages. ↗

— Gil Kane

#harmed #in other words #never #other #paper

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's. ↗

— Deborah Tannen

#each #her #other #own #underestimates

I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#buds #father #i #italian #mother

If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#home #i #like #other #people

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own. ↗

— Carole King

#create #downside #front #get #might