#passe

Just because you're upfront with someone doesn't mean you're an honest person; you might just be someone in the passenger seat. ↗

— Brian Celio

#honest #honest person #just #just be #just because

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#because #better #better place #eat #encourages

I think the saddest moment in my life just happened two months ago. My old nightclub partner passed away, Phil Erickson down in Atlanta. He - I owe him everything. He put me in the business and taught me about everything I know. ↗

— Dick Van Dyke

#ago #atlanta #away #business #down

I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway. ↗

— George Stephenson

#been #bill #glad #i #i am

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

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

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

I want to bring passengers on my airplanes to present to them my product. ↗

— Niki Lauda

#i #passengers #present #product #them

This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#bad #capacity #globalisation #integrated #interdependent