#taken

It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected. ↗

— Larry Bird

#ever #expected #farther #i #journey

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#because #chuckle #dickens #earthly #i

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#journalist #mistaken #person #their #who

Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering treatment today. Christopher Reeve would still have been taken from us. But we would be closer. ↗

— Patti Davis

#ago #been #bush #bush administration #cell research

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#art form #been #cinema #effects #extraordinary

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#how #intelligence #man #shows #smart

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. ↗

— Eubie Blake

#care #going #i #known #live

The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge. ↗

— William Bligh

#been #command #former #his #increase

Once you get in a position where your rent is taken care of and you do have a job, you really get to deal with yourself and really become one with yourself. And you wake to your mind every day. That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain. ↗

— Fred Durst

#best #best friend #brain #care #day

I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#been #cancel #comfortable #each #gay