#long

I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#i #i wish #instead #life #live

The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago. ↗

— Julian Clary

#business #famous #fun #getting #good

The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters. ↗

— Robert Morley

#always #british #happy #long #natives

I don't care what a man is as long as he treats me right. He can be a gambler, a hustler, someone everybody else thinks is obnoxious, I don't care so long as he's straight with me and our dealings are fair. ↗

— Joe Namath

#dealings #else #everybody #everybody else #fair

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#belongs #body #evil #far #feeling

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#anything #could #i #life #long

I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#along #fame #felt #freedom #get

When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#almost #barbie #belonged #biographies #books

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it. ↗

— John Mayer

#exactly #figured #how #i #i can

But all of this success came at the end of a long climb. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#climb #end #long #success