#earl

The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln. ↗

— Russell Baker

#american #american public #commentators #conditioned #down

According to the committee's findings, a network of mobile missiles carrying the newest warheads could be tested by China this year and deployed as early as 2002. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#carrying #china #committee #could #deployed

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#age #change #chief #early #enforce

I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality. ↗

— M. Russell Ballard

#every #here #human #human soul #i

But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines. ↗

— Majel Barrett

#early #going #gun #head #knew

The average trade of an individual is in the thousands of shares, whereas the institutional trade can be in the millions of shares. Clearly, the bigger the order, the bigger the move in the stock. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

#bigger #clearly #individual #institutional #millions

My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and watch TV with him. ↗

— Karen Bass

#early #early age #father #him #i

Throughout my 20s I spent a lot of time just playing and not really working, but fortunately for me I continued to get just enough work, and have a reason to wake up in the morning. I really empathize with some of my peers who had success in the early years then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#dries #early #empathize #enough #fortunately

Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#blinkers #clearly #defined #goals #too

The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#built #clear #early #enough #fans