#bj

Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them. ↗

— Harry Browne

#cause #government #ideas #irresponsible #libertarian

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes. ↗

— Shirley Williams

#catholic #catholic church #church #come #either

A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up towards the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-coloured rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#everyday-objects #great-gatsby #great-prose #prose #beauty

My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects. ↗

— Les Dawson

#every #every time #i #object #objects

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects. ↗

— Nigel Dennis

#material #means #nature #paintings #photography

In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention. ↗

— Jay Dratler

#attention #case #completely #discovered #i

Not until, years later, I found my true interest in life did I discover that I could master a subject, no matter how difficult, if it helped me in what I wanted to do. ↗

— Lincoln Ellsworth

#did #difficult #discover #found #helped

One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book. ↗

— James Franco

#admire #aspect #book #filmmaker #greatly

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing. ↗

— Helen Frankenthaler

#effective #every #inch #matter #paint

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#best #deeply #event #himself #his