#passe

This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for. ↗

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

#article #awards #bit #ceremony #completely

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#cases #characteristic #commercial #composers #down

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes. ↗

— Chris Evans

#each #indignation #just #most #passes

I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

#description #else #experiences #filtered #i

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#between #character #comes #even #imaginations

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone. ↗

— Edmond H. Fischer

#commonly #considering #fails #failure #far

I am not a passenger in anything I do. ↗

— Derek Fisher

#anything #i #i am #i do #passenger

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever. ↗

— Michael Foot

#elder #hope #intervening #passed #period

As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#before #behind #better #both #did

But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth. ↗

— Marie de France

#heart #love #nothing #passes #person