#elf

It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before. ↗

— Christian Bale

#along #because #before #comes #different

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#cancer #everything #intellectual #intellectual property #itself

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#avarice #beauty #bid #both #disinterested

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle. ↗

— Balthus

#consciousness #criticism #experience #feel #great

If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead. ↗

— Anne Bancroft

#both #change #completely #dead #going

I've been making music for a while. And I could read about myself on the Internet for a while. ↗

— Azealia Banks

#been #could #i #internet #making

O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second! ↗

— Joseph Banks

#degrees #glorious #heel #how #myself

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home. ↗

— Leslie Banks

#contest #enter #home #honesty #i

I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#another #because #days #did #disappoint

I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#empathy #first #first world #i #i think