#were

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago. ↗

— Ben Stein

#anticipated #days #fast #few #getting

Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement. ↗

— Ben Stein

#alert #am #around #calmer #concentrate

The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly. ↗

— Ben Stein

#banks #burned #good #good times #got

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#efficient #find #i #possible #pupil

I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income. ↗

— Jack Steinberger

#chemical #depression #end #engineering #family

In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools. ↗

— Jack Steinberger

#children #education #enacted #excluded #followed

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#again #because #being #club #desired

I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#famous #i #intoxicated #larger #life

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school. ↗

— W. Richard Stevens

#decided #flying #future #get #grad

William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#characters #completely #contrasting #different #different people