#all

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears. ↗

— Bette Davis

#bored #did #i #me #never

If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#country #fall #love #makes #people

If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#boat #city #elderly #everyone #free

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#already #bad #bath #become #conspirators

That great dust-heap called 'history'. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#called #great

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me. ↗

— Chili Davis

#bat #effortless #first #first time #game

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#come #ideas #matter #musical #musical ideas

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#bartender #book #critic #drunk #good

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#born #conceived #day #dies #grows

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. ↗

— Mark Twain

#balls #golf #golf balls #good #lost