#ward

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters. ↗

— William Standish Knowles

#business #family #family background #heavily #matters

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#between #cannot #forward #gap #go

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. ↗

— Harold Coffin

#awkward #catching #father #father time #middle

It's very validating when you are new in the industry to get awards. It boosts your self-esteem. ↗

— Sheena Easton

#boosts #get #industry #new #self-esteem

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#backwards #condition #further #greek #how

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#comedy #drop #gate #hit #hollywood

It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice. ↗

— Emily Blunt

#awards #because #distracted #done #film

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#cannot #cast #covet #doth #even

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#agents #army #close #commander #confidential

Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#could #did #i #insane #island