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Life is like a trumpet – if you don't put anything into it you don't get anything out of it.

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William Christopher Handy
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Category: Life

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
  • 2. I am a grandmother now and that means age is creeping on creeping on.
  • 3. In my old age I'll be in L.A.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I'm proud of the U.S.A. We've done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor.
  • 2. My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief all this loss all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light.
  • 3. I love a beautiful gown on stage and luckily I've been fortunate to wear some amazing dresses.

3 Anger

  • 1. My dear brothers take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen slow to speak and slow to become angry for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
  • 2. The components of anxiety stress fear and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world even though we talk about them as if they do.
  • 3. I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine if you want – but also some sort of sadness and plain mischief of course.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.
  • 2. A lot of good love can happen in ten years.
  • 3. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I don't divide architecture landscape and gardening to me they are one.
  • 2. I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people real street scenes behind the curtain scenes live models paintings photographs staged setups architecture grids graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.
  • 3. The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.
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