#peak

The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#being #conquerors #contests #english-speaking #field

I'd retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn't a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak. ↗

— Julie London

#back #business #career #coming #crack

I see myself being married to my girlfriend and backpacking all over the world. If I can go out and do a 15-mile hike and climb a 12,000-ft. peak, I'm good to go. ↗

— Matt Long

#climb #girlfriend #go #good #hike

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#another #darkness #distant #each #life

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#dear #here #herself #i #i wish

I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#day #end #end of the day #hear #hope

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#cowardly #defenseless #gossip #ignorant #instead

If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#awful #being #could #dead #enough

The advantage of working for a corporation is that it has only one message, because a product or a service doesn't speak; it's just there, and you can advertise it. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#advertise #because #corporation #just #message

I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really. ↗

— Adrian Lyne

#day #every #film #i #makes