#went

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#conference #disappearing #forest #gift #had

When I was 20, I went to Paris and tried to meet French women. It didn't work. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#french women #i #meet #paris #tried

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#count #fifty #girl #marry #only

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#century #conceptual #criticism #drama #etc

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#camel #dog #eighty #fifty #forty

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#favorite #first #form #genre #i

A lot of times Mick will play me different things, or I'll listen to a cassette, and out of twenty ideas or whatever, I'll find two or three that are just blowing me away, and we'll start working on them right away. ↗

— Lou Gramm

#blowing #cassette #different #different things #find

I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor. ↗

— Lou Gramm

#i #operation #remove #tumor #went

We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#beautiful #catch #did #fish #fog

If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well. ↗

— Amy Grant

#closet #differently #faith #feelings #out