#ape

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#depends #order #shape #upon #which

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!" ↗

— Bill Bradley

#cannot #common #enables #escape #imagination

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 was really, because I thought it was extremely excruciating when I watched a tape of it, that my husband taped for me and I never watched it again after that. ↗

— Jo Brand

#again #because #excruciating #extremely #husband

I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#busted #butts #cigarette #drank #floor

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape. ↗

— John Lancaster Spalding

#cannot #driven #escape #hell #may

The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#fit #fits #listener #must #newspaper

Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#ideology #shaped #sit #sofa #very

You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#affect #affects #beings #courts #federal

Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#bringing #chapel #clear #complete #end