#de

A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

#around #cannot #comfort #countryside #crops

I try to ask visual questions. I'll ask what someone was wearing, if that seems relevant. If possible, I'll walk over the same ground that they're depicting. Of course, I can never get it precisely as it was. ↗

— Joe Sacco

#course #depicting #get #ground #i

It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#break #cable #difficult #directors #easier

I've been a strong financial and political supporter of, first, President Bush Sr. when he was running for president, and even when he ran for president a time or two and failed. ↗

— Kenneth Lay

#bush #even #failed #financial #first

We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#depend #dislikes #egotism #identity #likes

A Quarkbeast is a small hyena-shaped creature that is covered in leathery scales and often described as: 'One tenth Labrador, six-tenths velociraptor and three-tenths kitchen food blender. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#jasper #jasper-fforde #quarkbeast #the-song-of-the-quarkbeast #food

Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse. ↗

— Arthur Baer

#buying #dead #dead horse #horse #like

We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself. ↗

— Martin Ryle

#built #designed #enjoy #i #myself

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#being #conscious #development #history #matter

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton. ↗