#ears

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers. ↗

— James Broughton

#being #books #farther #hundred #nourished

What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest. ↗

— Earl Browder

#been #calamity #cold #cold war #consideration

That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me. ↗

— Dakota Fanning

#cool #curtis #entire #entire life #ever

So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do. ↗

— Alton Brown

#culinary #england #finally #full #grasp

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years. ↗

— Bob Brown

#every #lot #man #successful #successful man

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#courage #fears #influenced #never #your

Also by my earliest days, I was fascinated by a utopian vision of what the world could be like. I've thought that science could be the basis for a better world, and that's what I've been trying to do all these years. ↗

— George E. Brown, Jr.

#basis #been #better #better world #could

I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God. ↗

— James Brown

#believed #cause #couple #down #ever

Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I've got people up here who I'm really tight with, we've made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I've got people in my corner I can trust. ↗

— Jonathan Brown

#call #corner #few #got #great

I'm well-travelled so I can see places coming up. I went to St. Croix in the West Indies at Christmas and it had been hit by a really bad tornado. Values there have gone down but I guarantee they will be up again in eight years. So I'll get in now while it's cheap as chips. ↗

— Melanie Brown

#bad #been #cheap #chips #christmas