#partly

I think the success of 'Downton' is partly because there are effectively 18 leading characters, all given equal importance, so it's enormously involving on many levels. But also, it's a new story. It's not like Dickens or Austen, where everyone knows the denouement. ↗

— Michelle Dockery

#austen #because #characters #dickens #effectively

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#friends #life #made #make #partly

The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center. ↗

— Orville Wright

#air #balanced #being #center #control

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#exception #individual #only #partly #perceives

The fact is that daytime television is less valued than nighttime, and it's partly because of the product that we produce. We do a one-hour show in 12 hours. Nighttime produces a one-hour show in seven to nine days. ↗

— Deidre Hall

#days #daytime #fact #hours #less

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#ever #i #information #journalist #partly

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#dog #enjoy #him #merely #oneself

Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy. ↗

— Mary Astell

#because #love #makes #marry #mighty

Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#because #fans #get #i #nice

No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government. ↗

— Jim Bunning

#china #communist #company #fails #government