#than

Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#been #i #lord #salvation #thank

It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas. ↗

— Alan Alda

#clear #freshness #hang #ideas #life

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die. ↗

— Vittorio Alfieri

#courage #die #live #rather #test

I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#carolina #country #eastern #exception #i

You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island. ↗

— Jason Alexander

#better #budget #find #had #island

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#books #i #learn #may #more

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#finding #itself #learn #learning #looking

What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns. ↗

— Oscar Hammerstein II

#drowns #man #sometimes #swim #than

If he wins seven golds and ties what I did, then it would be like I was the first man on the moon and he became the second. If he wins more than seven, then he becomes the first man on Mars. We'd both be unique. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#becomes #both #did #first #i

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it. ↗

— Clive Bell

#feeling #means #other #our #recognising