#realize

At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#beginning #casting #dross #everything #fifteen

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#i #life #my life #only #realized

Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#band #body #doing #garage #hear

It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day. ↗

— Joey Lauren Adams

#happens #i #intimacy #like #oh

I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you. ↗

— Steven Adler

#depressed #depressing #down #feeling #getting

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#finally #hope #human #human race #i

I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#bite #blood #doing #horrified #hurts

Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will. ↗

— Dario Argento

#adored #always #apart #audiences #did

I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did. ↗

— Alan Arkin

#analyze #certain #certain things #did #eight

I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire. ↗

— Douglas Bader

#bit #caught #cockpit #had #i