#wat

As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever or whomever he had to, to avoid risking exposure to physical violence. Shame never came into it. He embraced his new identity as a coward. He would run in the other direction. He would lie down and cry and put his arms over his head or play dead. It didn't matter what he had to do, he would do it and be glad. ↗

— Lev Grossman

#cowardice #fear #martial-heroics #physical-violence #playing-dead

If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business. ↗

— Joey Adams

#business #golf #watch #you #your

Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#excitement #go #grass #grow #investing

If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses. ↗

— Julian Sands

#big #distracting #finding #glasses #go

Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young. ↗

— John Thorn

#backyard #ball #ball game #baseball #days

Muscle and water is critical in burning fat. ↗

— Lee Haney

#critical #fat #muscle #water

They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water! ↗

— Bud Abbott

#even #get #head #i #now

We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that. ↗

— Jennifer Saunders

#amateur #bit #charm #first #involve

I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV. ↗

— Sam Waterston

#lot #news #obsessed #sort #syndrome

This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.' ↗

— Jack White

#building #cable #cars #creative #dead