"It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle."

-- Gail Collins

#Appreciate Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Age Quotes

“I just enjoy lying on the couch and reading a magazine.”
“My experiences are universal. I'm not doing anything embarrassingÂ - to me what would be embarrassing is to talk about minutia. It would be embarrassing to get up there and not say anything.”
“Perhaps I shall not write my account of the Paleolithic at all, but make a film of it. A silent film at that, in which I shall show you first the great slumbering rocks of the Cambrian period, and move from those to the mountains of Wales...from Ordovician to Devonian, on the lush glowing Cotswolds, on to the white cliffs of Dover... An impressionistic, dreaming film, in which the folded rocks arise and flower and grow and become Salisbury Cathedral and York Minster...”
“As you get older you also start to lose your anger a bit.”
“It's usually the exact same three things which are, the Scripts, the Director and the Role those are the three things I look for and really any two of them, If I get two of them that's usually enough, but definitely those are the things I look for.”
“American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.”
“Contrast warm to cool. Make color sing, ring like a bell. Work from big to small.”
“I love this simple maiden, She grows upon me more and more, And--ask the moon who 't was that kissed, Last night upon the shore!”

Source : George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.30

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