#were

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#civilizations #flourished #fragments #great #having

I remember seeing some little wrinkles in my early 30s and thinking they were interesting. But you know the horror of it is that the screen image has to be perfect. ↗

— Claire Bloom

#horror #i #i remember #image #interesting

I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#always #felt #i #involved #like

No one respects the umpire's job more than I do; but, if I were a manager, I would probably be ejected three or four times a season fighting for my team. ↗

— Jim Evans

#four #i #i do #job #manager

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#done #experience #first #had #how

And if I were the president, I'd go out there and I'd emphasize the things I have done, and I'd say, 'Some things haven't worked, and I'm sorry about that, but I keep trying.' And I'm - and I think the president is a very viable candidate, and you're going to have a real horse race here no matter who the Republican nominee is. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#candidate #done #emphasize #go #going

The fact must never be forgotten that no magazine publisher in the United States could give what it is giving to the reader each month if it were not for the revenue which the advertiser brings the magazine. ↗

— Edward Bok

#brings #could #each #fact #forgotten

It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#could #early #eggs #full #good

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#christianity #crude #decent #decent people #devils

Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles made it much easier to put the script together-we knew who we were writing it for. It took some mystery away. ↗

— Stephen Hopkins

#easier #gene #knew #knowing #made