#year

Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#anyway #around #could #east #europe

I've been wanting to have a baby since I was 2 years old - I'm destined to be a mother. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

#been #destined #i #mother #old

Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years? ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#could #had #happened #hardly #human

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#elementary #elementary school #i #missouri #school

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep. ↗

— Peter Singer

#best #better #break #children #easier

The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#asian #asian countries #been #character #chronic

After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley. ↗

— Gene Siskel

#ago #black #black sheep #chris #farley

In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#book #dignified #fourth #i #i think

It's physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years. ↗

— Nikki Sixx

#onstage #performer #physically #thirty #trying

We did something this year that was not based on animosity. ↗