#lining

Avarice is the vice of declining years. ↗

— George Bancroft

#declining #vice #years

A man could shoot a squirrel out of a tree from a distance of sixty feet. But he couldn't vomit into a bucket or pee into a pot only two feet away. It was one of the great mysteries of life. ↗

— Maggie Osborne

#man-jokes #mystery-of-life #silver-lining #life

I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#book #eight #i #months #outlining

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. ↗

— E. B. White

#circus #commas #fall #knives #new

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#been #comfort #consider #day #declining

Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing is writing. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#coming #creating #ideas #only #outlining

The aging and declining population will have far-reaching impacts. Declining fertility rates will possibly increase immigration. The structure of family and society will inevitably change. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

#change #declining #family #far-reaching #fertility

All the trends show that email usage among the younger cohorts of Internet users is declining. Whether it will take five or 30 years for email to go extinct, I'm not sure. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#declining #email #extinct #five #go

I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#better #blocks #competitors #confidence #day