#ang

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#arranging #competitive #flower #squash #think

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#jolly #opinion #strange #strange world #well

There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with would endanger America and the prospects of eventual peace in the Middle East. ↗

— Robert Foster Bennett

#america #been #before #currently #dealt

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#born #certain #charismatic #dangerous #either

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive. ↗

— Stella Benson

#bond #cursed #families #family #jokes

Their characteristics are well-known. They're beautiful -- when they're not astoundingly ugly. They're both goddesses for men to worship, and demons for them to flee. They adore children, sometimes to the point of unhealthy obsession. They have a strong association with nature, from which they're often assumed to draw magical power. Their anger is a terrible thing to behold, and all the more fearsome because anything can spark it; the rules by which these creatures operate are not those of rational men. They are creatures of fanciful whim, and they never, ever, can be understood. I'm talking, of course, about women. ↗

— Marie Brennan

#fantasy #women #anger

I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#changed #i #mind #wanted

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. ↗

— John Berger

#invention #light #makes #materials #photography

I'm way hot," he muttered. "But I don't feel sick. Just — way hot." Fang ↗

— James Patterson

#funny #funny

Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle. ↗

— Daisy Berkowitz

#angle #approaching #excited #formed #got