#met

What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns. ↗

— Oscar Hammerstein II

#drowns #man #sometimes #swim #than

It's a once-in-a-lifetime event for all of us, something like this. ↗

— Berenice Bejo

#like #something #us

Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering. ↗

— Catherine Bell

#every #flattering #i #marine #met

We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves. ↗

— Clive Bell

#art #beautiful #because #else #i

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#art #creative #feeling #fitness #generality

In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#able #art #big #called #century

When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer. ↗

— Kristen Bell

#i #i see #intervene #me #see

I'm an awful driver. I'm not going to lie about it. I'm not a good driver. I tried for a long time to pretend that I was. There's a lot of road rage and a lot of times it's directed at something I've done on the road. ↗

— Kristen Bell

#awful #directed #done #driver #going

I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for the other people who counted on our support. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#also #counted #i #i think #only

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#lie #nation #necessary #sometimes