#toward

But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed. ↗

— Peter Bogdanovich

#asked #certain #certain point #directed #directing

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#excessive #offset #our #return #simplicity

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. ↗

— Robert Bolt

#aside #birth #day #does #draw

The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#geared #i #top #top 40 #toward

I have played on many teams throughout my career, and I know when a team has the tools, and the right positive attitude towards winning. ↗

— Boomer Esiason

#career #i #know #many #played

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#courses #did #english #english literature #figured

I think, like a lot of other people who have been in the service, you'd been delayed in what you were doing. You wanted to catch up and the best way to catch up was to move as fast as you could toward a degree. ↗

— Daniel J. Evans

#best #best way #catch #could #degree

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#genial #gift #gives #greatest #greatest gift

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#gravitate #philosophy #serious #towards

The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#been #centuries #change #democrats #enemy