John Lahr Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, ‘West Side Story’ incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century. – John Lahr Age Quotes American Quotes Cars Quotes Century Quotes Dream Quotes Fifties Quotes Fins Quotes Furniture Quotes Golden Quotes Incarnates Quotes Momentum Quotes Parabolic Quotes Populuxe Quotes Shapes Quotes Story Quotes Tail Quotes Twentieth Quotes West Quotes Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll’s doo-wop promise of joy and the nation was full of J.F.K.’s eloquent promise of a New Frontier? I did. Life seemed to be laid out before us like a banquet; everything was for the taking, especially hearts. Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot,’ billed as ‘the laugh sensation of two continents,’ made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida, in 1956. My father, Bert Lahr, was playing Estragon, one of the two bowler-hatted tramps who pass the time in a lunar landscape as they wait in vain for the arrival of a Mr. Godot.
Beth Ostrosky Stern My husband is a big softy and he is so lovable. He is very much like my pets in that I love to cuddle him. – Beth Ostrosky Stern
FinanceMark Skousen One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply writing down all expenditures and seeing where the money goes. That alone will cause heads of households to think twice about x, y or z expenditure, and to consider carefully whether they really need something or not. – Mark Skousen
Laura Amy Schlitz Sometimes I feel like an impostor, and I have to remind myself, ‘You are able to do this.’ I look at the books on the shelf that have my name on them to remind myself I have done it before and, likely, I can do it again. – Laura Amy Schlitz
Gordon Moore I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn’t at all clear in the beginning. – Gordon Moore
Andre Leon Talley I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don’t want to see skyscrapers. – Andre Leon Talley
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