#sen

If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life. ↗

— John Irving

#any #beginning #i #interesting #last

The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#book #country #down #experiment #here

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities. ↗

— Arthur Rock

#appreciated #business #business sense #i #knew

It's just like high school. If you're a freshman or a sophomore, it's hard to tell the seniors who've been through two, three, playoff games what to do. ↗

— Tony Romo

#freshman #games #hard #high #high school

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#long #long time #past #present #takes

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not guilty." ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#call #guilty #know #not guilty #present

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#future #here #influencing #moments #now

I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history. ↗