#year

In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing. ↗

— Mary Garden

#almost #always #anything #back #constant

I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two. ↗

— Ava Gardner

#damn #each #end #going #hard

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero. ↗

— Bill Gates

#american #average #billion #bring #carbon

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#brain #content #different #different kinds #etc

When I started working, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, in that I was just wandering around, hoping that I could succeed. Then after I got a little under my belt, it took me about 25 years to feel like I knew what I was doing. ↗

— James Garner

#after #around #belt #clue #could

I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out. ↗

— Peter Garrett

#believe #brave #coming #considerably #continue

I've learnt and I just want to be respected for what I've achieved on the pitch. I know I haven't achieved much off it but I do know I've given pleasure to people watching me play football over the years. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

#football #given #haven #i #i do

I worked in the media from the late 30's through the early 70's. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state as the years passed. ↗

— Jesse Helms

#both #early #general #i #late

In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#became #before #black #christianity #christians

It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#make #nobody #pop #shocked #singers