#were

No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will. ↗

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#any #anything #ever #gave #god

By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets. ↗

— Richard Russo

#america #american #american culture #culture #front

The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#atmosphere #competing #competitive #day #each

We were all novices. We really were. We didn't know a goddamn thing about doing a show. ↗

— Jerome Robbins

#damn thing #doing #goddamn #know #novices

They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em. ↗

— Alex Winter

#fun #innocent #movies #pretensions #were

But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves. ↗

— Xenophanes

#bodies #cattle #draw #each #forms

I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#engineer #engines #father #guess #i

If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet. ↗

— Brad Holland

#both #careers #painting #picasso #probably

Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years. ↗

— George Stephen

#just #novels #over #period #were

They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#clothes #got #i #left #were