#ay

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors. ↗

— John Betjeman

#benefactors #front #gardens #houses #interesting

Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth. ↗

— Bruno Bettelheim

#habits #intellectual #most #needed #play

As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people. ↗

— Nuno Bettencourt

#everyday #everyday people #going #i #i think

The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us. ↗

— Gary Bettman

#been #canada #canadian #franchises #hockey

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat. ↗

— Ernest Bevin

#intelligent people #look #people #scapegoat #unintelligent

The lights of prayer that make us imagine we are beginning to be angels are sometimes only signs that we are finally beginning to be men. We do not have a high enough opinion of our own nature. We think we are at the gates of heaven and we are only just beginning to come into our own realm as free and intelligent beings. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#imagination

Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions? ↗

— Thomas Hooker

#become #corruptions #disdain #far #men

Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems. ↗

— Peter Bichsel

#am #any #ask #dear #does

Women have that weird way of trying to be feminist. You know, like 'hear me roar.' But what they really want is a man to open the door for them. ↗

— Leslie Bibb

#feminist #hear #know #like #man

Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel? ↗

— Joe Biden

#father #feel #just #me #says