#ace

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#given #hopeless #long #mathematics #over

No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. ↗

— Isaac Babel

#heart #iron #just #period #pierce

A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't. ↗

— Burt Bacharach

#place #small #small town #town #where

The same expertise we learned at the autopsy table can be applied to living people who've been shot, battered, or raped. The search for trace evidence is the same. ↗

— Michael Baden

#autopsy #battered #been #evidence #expertise

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. ↗

— Nicholson Baker

#control #form #group #living #me

We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We need to embrace opportunities, but with the right kind of safeguards. ↗

— John Baldacci

#development #economic #economic development #embrace #homeland

One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later. ↗

— Christian Bale

#alone #back #big #eleven #enjoy

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really. ↗

— Balthus

#another #cannot #i #know #language

Your ability to see beauty and possibility is proportionate to the level at which you embrace gratitude. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#embrace #gratitude #happiness #life #possibility

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass. ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#pass #place #something #think #wait