#elves

We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves. ↗

— Clive Bell

#art #beautiful #because #else #i

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. ↗

— Robert Neelly Bellah

#give #home #involves #kind #leaving

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves. ↗

— Edward Bond

#me #ourselves #profoundly #seems

The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates. ↗

— Ian Botham

#bad day #day #field #had #people

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher. ↗

— Anna C. Brackett

#free #higher #lower #machines #more

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#make #mind #ourselves #putting #state

I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#idea #impression #make #me #no idea

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#bald #candidates #disagreeable #fat #how

Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#had #help #myths #navigate #now

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#god #judge #looks #men #our