#ape

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#age #civilization #rise #risen #stone

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#around #bunch #dependent #else #grapes

The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting my thoughts down on paper even before then because it was like an escape - a way of unleashing all the stuff. ↗

— William Bell

#because #before #del #down #escape

By overhauling current rules and speeding the entry of competitors in the market, we encourage competition and provide our constituents with new choices and cheaper bills. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#cheaper #choices #competition #competitors #constituents

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do. ↗

— Geoffrey Beene

#drape #going #i #know #sketch

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#experience #game #indeed #making #marks

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#brief #dozen #fifty #half #indeed

Many a good newspaper story has been ruined by over verification. ↗

— James Gordon Bennett

#good #many #newspaper #over #ruined

All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. ↗

— A. C. Benson

#escape #how #interests #only #reality

Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders, he was able to indulge in his hobbies... and he was making occasional video tapes and audio tapes to the wider world. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#area #audio #away #bin #his