#din

And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought. ↗

— Arthur Bryant

#depart #dinner #great #great ones #growing

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot. ↗

— Kobe Bryant

#cup #games #handing #hitting #i

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#audience #deliver #few #gifted #like

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another. ↗

— George Carlin

#audience #audience members #become #commonplace #far

When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#assumed #blood #cd #doing #first

I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur. ↗

— Belinda Carlisle

#i #like #mean #music #rock

Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#demagoguery #emotion #followers #islam #leading

The dividing line between wish and need was never clear. ↗

— James Buchan

#clear #dividing #dividing line #line #need

We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned. ↗

— James Buchan

#crown #drama #earned #frets #his

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world. ↗

— James Buchan

#come #commissioned #conqueror #dispassionate #english