#rand

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. ↗

— Randy Pausch

#last-lecture #life #randy-pausch #change

I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver. ↗

— Adele

#behind #believe #brain #deliver #difficult

I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business. ↗

— Pamela Anderson

#am #brand #business #created #i

My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband. ↗

— Pamela Anderson

#grandfather #great #husband #terrible #wonderful

The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia. ↗

— Sparky Anderson

#amnesia #ask #baseball #done #good

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#different #grandmother #her #invention #law

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? ↗

— David Attenborough

#book #elephant #except #grandchildren #happy

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#best #casts #causes #certain #greatest

We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#fought #great-grandfather #like #never #never forget

Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#back #barrymore #circus #drew #going