#ible

I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I'm lazy, though I'm sure if I were in therapy for a lot of years, it would turn out to be a lot more than laziness. After awhile, it was, like, too embarrassing for me not to go on auditions. I had to be humiliated into it. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#audition #auditions #awhile #come #embarrassing

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#float #formless #intangible #interpreters #lack

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#consciences #highest #human #human society #interest

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#day #fruit #invisible #maybe #remains

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#could #explain #feels #how #life

Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs. ↗

— Jeanine Basinger

#cloth #cut #everyone #flexible #how

Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act. ↗

— Lance Bass

#actor #around #criticized #doing #every

As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible. ↗

— Mario Batali

#cooks #could #each #eating #edible

I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people. ↗

— Alan Bates

#believe #i #i do #impossible #living

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#explain #impossible #invoking #pattern #principle