#use

When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys. ↗

— Larry Bird

#black #cause #game #guys #hotel

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course. ↗

— Larry Bird

#conclusion #course #day #directions #discard

I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#coming home #days #face #home #i

He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#because #i #love #loved #me

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

When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I used to try to be so good that sometimes I couldn't bear it any more. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#bear #between #carriages #good #i

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else. ↗

— Bette Davis

#because #become #dislike #else #often

I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries. ↗

— Bette Davis

#because #groceries #had #i #pay

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets? ↗

— Jim Bishop

#amount #bodies #car #crash #dwell

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law. ↗

— Evan Davis

#academia #bench #chair #chairs #describe