#ringing

Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us. ↗

— David Brin

#civilization #could #culture #down #feed

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#am #canada #canadian #i #i am

Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#bringing #cheated #childhood #comedy #controlled

Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds? ↗

— Albert Claude

#also #behavior #bringing #cells #come

My phone has been ringing off the hook. I have like 17 cell phones and pagers. ↗

— Steven Cojocaru

#cell #cell phones #hook #i #like

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me. ↗

— Bradley Cooper

#because #catholic #catholic guilt #favor #guilt

I was sucked into this vortex of a very conservative upbringing. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#i #into #sucked #upbringing #very

For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#column #comes #copy #expression #habit

You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing. ↗

— Sam J. Jones

#into #month #more #phone #point

There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life. ↗

— Karen Kain

#bringing #challenge #everyone #force #involved