#men

I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others. ↗

— Adrian Belew

#i #instructor #instruments #might #others

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#bell #conservative #funeral #men #nation

Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember. ↗

— Rand Beers

#answer #business #cannot #day-to-day #desk

We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and office buildings. The recruitment may be even more prolific outside Iraq. ↗

— Rand Beers

#bombing #buildings #cars #development #driving

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#art form #aversion #between #conventional #criticism

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#judgments #matter #only #opinions #private

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. ↗

— Tony Benn

#life #lifetime #moment #moments #most

My films are about embarrassment. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#embarrassment #films

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#artists #brain #dead #experience #fact

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#create #creative #dance #dancers #environment