“I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.” YearsThreeForceHalfAirMonthsTenNotionEightThree YearsAir Force Author:Morgan Freeman
“I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the yoke. You don't know how wearisome it is to breathe the air of four pent walls without relief day after day, all the golden hours of the day between ten and four without ease or interposition ... these pestilential clerk-faces always in one's dish. O for a few years between the grave and the desk!” KnowsYearsFacesGrowsHoursKnow HowFourAirWallTenTiredBreatheGravesGoldenEaseThirtyOfficialsNecksReliefDishesDesksThirty YearsClerksYokeConfinementPhilistinesGolden Hour Book:The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works Source: The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works
“Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow--or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends.” EndsMomentsFactsLastsDiesNextWomenAirTomorrowBedTenNineDespiteBitterNext DayMartyrResignationDeath Bed Author:Zelda Fitzgerald
“I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.” TryingAirEventsTenBallsTrainCoachesJugglers Author:Dan O'Brien