#passage

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary. ↗

— Ken Follett

#dramatic #felt #free #long #next

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#interested #only #passage #rites #stories

Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage. ↗

— Gemma Ward

#history #kind #lots #models #passage

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? ↗

— Walt Whitman

#against #aside #disputed #great #learned

Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#action #agencies #been #before #decisive

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it. ↗

— Esther Williams

#gift #passage #share #time #unless

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended. ↗

— Olivia Williams

#area #because #comedy #detective #done

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#anger #contemporary #culture #disgust #even

Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice. ↗

— Don Young

#arctic #community #covered #farming #found

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#decent #english #language #learned #left