#were

We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#dated #fixed #inventions #many #offices

Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#because #blank #empty #exactly #house

Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously. ↗

— Gerald Clarke

#capote #journalism #non-fiction #seriously #taken

I grew up before there were strict leash laws. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#grew #i #laws #leash #strict

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are. ↗

— Julio Cortazar

#before #dreams #knows #only #play

My personal missteps - how many Americans have died as a result of that? None. Other than my family, how many victims were there? None. And yet, in refusing to engage in a responsible debate about Iraq, how many Americans died? Thousands. And America seems to have no problem with that. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#america #debate #died #engage #family

You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out. ↗

— Antonin Scalia

#different #having #out #regulations #states

I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#friends #good #good friends #got #i

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#family #men #most #were #women

I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read. ↗