#lit

To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#eat #morality #nature #rare #represents

It just seems that you were talking positively about McDonald's, that they are... attempting this healthy lifestyle, and yet when we're talking right now... it seems that you're saying they need to make more responsibility. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

#attempting #healthy #healthy lifestyle #just #lifestyle

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past. ↗

— Clara Barton

#always #anything #been #better #complete

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate. ↗

— John Barton

#editor #intended #journal #literary #reader

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality. ↗

— John Barton

#feelings #his #impose #must #order

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. ↗

— Mark Twain

#except #force #principles #real #well-fed

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#after #agreement #because #born #childhood

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#does #hatred #legislate #only #organizes

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#appeal #assembly #business #principle #ranks

Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense - names of familiar figures around the house. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#duchamp #familiar #figures #house #household