#ant

Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants. ↗

— Stewart Udall

#business #haul #life #long #long haul

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#body #eyes #fins #fish #flash

I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in. ↗

— Yancy Butler

#happy #i #i am #participate #show

I do say no to lots of things, actually! I know it doesn't look like it. But I have a tendency to a) be rubbish at saying no, and b) be pushed by some kind of Protestant work ethic. ↗

— Jo Brand

#ethic #i #i do #kind #know

Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on. ↗

— Jo Brand

#along #anything #because #children #comes

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#change #i #i write #instant #kids

My home was 25 miles from the gulf, and I did not want to see it become a shorefront property. ↗

— John Breaux

#did #gulf #home #i #miles

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#good taste #human #important #more #sometimes

Obviously if Gates turns out missing the first game because of this, that's disappointing for everyone in this locker room because he is big part of our team and we don't want to see that happen. ↗

— Drew Brees

#big #disappointing #everyone #first #game

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

#being #bore #everyone #oneself #someone