#lt

It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without a choice of fabric - without a practical or visual reality. ↗

— Giorgio Armani

#abstract #before #body #choice #difficult

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation. ↗

— Miriam Beard

#beyond #calculation #philanthropy #results

It's that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don't subscribe to it. ↗

— John Byrne

#curiosity #feed #i #subscribe #tabloid

Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#establish #i #i think #know #land

Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#common #deal #either #loyalty #nevertheless

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal. ↗

— Roger Nash Baldwin

#am #class #communism #control #disarmament

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#dictate #either #extent #increasing #languages

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing. ↗

— Russell Banks

#been #draw #i #life #my life

I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy. ↗

— Ann Bancroft

#beautiful #being #being beautiful #devote #healthy

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense. ↗

— Charles Churchill

#copy #fame #faults #forfeits #pretense