#hr

I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#appropriated #being #british #cultural #current

Closer to home, the vast majority of terrorist attaches on U.S. soil have been perpetrated by Christian terrorist groups in the past 15 years. (p. 76) ↗

— John L. Esposito Dalia Mogahed

#islam #terrorism #home

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#body #eyes #fins #fish #flash

Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#fiction #filtered #food #i #liquor

People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth. ↗

— Russell Brand

#because #lies #out #people #them

Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for salvation when the threat of war arose. They hoped that the workers would never permit a war. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#before #hoped #ignorant #international #labor

There is only one thing I want. I would like to be seriously ill, and to hear nothing more about him for at least a week. Why doesn't something happen to me? Why do I have to go through all this? If only I had never set eyes on him! ↗

— Eva Braun

#eyes #go #had #happen #hear

We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#dead #finished #iraq #out #saddam

I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#counterterrorism #focus #i #i think #learned

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#computer #criticize #dare #ennobled #expensive