#isi

The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall. ↗

— Clay Aiken

#each #fall #falling #glory #greatest

I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself. ↗

— Emily Watson

#entertained #grew #i #lots #meant

There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things. ↗

— Terry Gilliam

#executives #formed #guarantee #haven #lots

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference. ↗

— Fred Allen

#advertising agency #agency #been #bit #conference

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities. ↗

— James Allen

#acorn #angel #bird #dream #dreams

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#become #cannot #controlling #desire #dominant

You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis. ↗

— John R. Allen

#crisis #decisions #get #great #hastily

If we had loads of money as a family, things would be different and they'd come to visit more and I'd get to spend more time here. But I'm laying down roots in America so when I'm there, just being at home, it's harder to break away from that. ↗

— Rick Allen

#away #be different #being #break #come

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#fiction #first #first time #historical #historical fiction

Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#does #even #exist #hospitals #long