#time

I'm of the mind that life is a risk, every time you leave your house it's a risk, and I see no reason to go through life with my hands tied behind my back for any reason. I'd be foolish to let something stop me from doing what I love to do. ↗

— Thomas Jane

#back #behind #doing #every #every time

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#falling #getting #nine #success is #ten

For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling "vaguely guilty. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#mothers #neglect #old-age #parents #sentimentality

Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas. ↗

— Wojciech Jaruzelski

#goodness #ideas #live #medieval #over

The great times are when you put a game on location and see others play it for the first time. After all, we are really kind of an entertainer. You perform for the joy of the audience. ↗

— Eugene Jarvis

#audience #entertainer #first #first time #game

In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#mediterranean #morocco #possible #same #see

In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics. ↗

— Pete McCloskey

#bob #ethical #ethics #ford #gerry

That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out! ↗

— Robert McCloskey

#around #bag #because #book #everything

And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape in someone else's gaze, to lie under a blue sky and dream of helpless, selfless love, to behold itself, illuminated, in the golden light of another's eyes. ↗

— Meg Rosoff

#aging #beauty #body #desire #dream

Regarding 'Ferris Bueller,' I was in the Czech Republic once, in Prague, making a movie at the same time as Jeffrey Jones, who played the principal, who was making a different movie. The Super Bowl was going to be playing at this bar at midnight, so we decided we would go watch the Super Bowl at this bar at midnight in Prague together. ↗

— Edie McClurg

#bowl #czech #czech republic #decided #different