#tend

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour. ↗

— Julia Margaret Cameron

#handled #i #lens #moment #tender

The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that we were kind of purists at the time, and we didn't want any comedians. ↗

— David Zucker

#attendant #because #comedians #gas #gas station

I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#i #liked #my own #myself #other

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ↗

— George Washington Carver

#aged #because #been #being #compassionate

The other [video game] franchises let you experience the adrenaline and horror of war, or deep fantasy worlds, or pro sports. A Mario game lets you pretend to be a middle-aged chubster hopping onto a turtle shell. ↗

— Jeff Ryan

#nintendo #video-games #age

Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#before #commercial #developers #hard #interests

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture. ↗

— Nancy Banks Smith

#door #experience #extending #keep #lavatory

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending. ↗

— Patti Smith

#continue #lot #me #pretend #pretending

You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#life-lesson #pretend #change

The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some "expert"... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#always #anything #does #expert #facts