#led

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#apart #breeding #improved #knowledge #love

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#boiled #contraception #down #easier #easy

When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer. ↗

— Melvin Burgess

#called #child #collecting #decide #english

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#called #came #guess #i #i came

I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#burst #circumstances #controlled #goodman #guard

Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#anyone #around #estimate #fooled #inaccurate

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#bush #cheney #failed #iraq #laid

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed. ↗

— Sid Caesar

#called #enjoyed #goals #life #lived

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

#down #inferiority #into #life #nothing

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#empirically #finding #following #genius #inspiration