#ants

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#appalling #everybody #everything #greed #needs

To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#creature #faith #god #god grants #grants

We are constantly reminding them that they are in a competition. I had a word with all my contestants and I know Kelly Rowland had a word with hers. It's reality check time. ↗

— Gary Barlow

#competition #constantly #contestants #had #hers

I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else's door. Because I don't want the remnants. I don't want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#being #caught #continually #cool thing #door

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#because #belong #cannot #compromises #grants

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#baseball #better #first #game #had

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. ↗

— Saint Basil

#deed #deeds #friendship #fruit #gathers

We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor. ↗

— Lance Bass

#actor #entertainment #entertainment industry #every #industry

Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down. ↗

— Mario Batali

#become #chefs #cookbooks #different #done

There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat. ↗

— Mario Batali

#battle #between #cook #customer #eat