#bj

The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#bull #gate #go #like #necessarily

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders. ↗

— Martin Mull

#art #art school #course #discovery #enjoyed

Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

#animal #bodies #chemistry #govern #inorganic

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#going #known #minister #nothing #objective

Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together. ↗

— Robert Musil

#closer #drew #endless #glittering #like

The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#british #capacity #industry #leader #objective

I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#find #fully #i #idea #intuition

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn. ↗

— John Naisbitt

#alone #changing #constantly #foreseeable #foreseeable future

But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy. ↗

— James Nasmyth

#astronomy #attractive #beauty #brilliancy #clear

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#consideration #detailed #enough #good #not good enough