#lace

No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. ↗

— Isaac Babel

#heart #iron #just #period #pierce

A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't. ↗

— Burt Bacharach

#place #small #small town #town #where

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. ↗

— Nicholson Baker

#control #form #group #living #me

One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later. ↗

— Christian Bale

#alone #back #big #eleven #enjoy

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really. ↗

— Balthus

#another #cannot #i #know #language

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass. ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#pass #place #something #think #wait

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs. ↗

— Clive Barker

#begins #ever #first #moment #nothing

I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts. ↗

— Carl Barks

#anyplace #boy #boy scout #could #eleven

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#people #replaced #should #thinking #would

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#acting #bubbling #company #constantly #director