#mine

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

#becomes #cannot #determined #exactly #exists

I'm a hard-mouthed northeastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#england #i #lad #me #northeast

Some comedians love their characters. I don't fall in love with mine. In fact, I get tired of them very fast. You have to be willing to throw it all away. ↗

— John Belushi

#characters #comedians #fact #fall #fast

So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#20th century #approached #century #convention #drama

Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#eminently #fraud #generally #insider #particular

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#control #earth #eminently #foundation #land

I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth. ↗

— Jim Coleman

#film #guess #hal #his #i

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal. ↗

— Leon Kass

#evolved #human #human animal #preeminently #social

Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come. ↗

— Bernice Weissbourd

#child #come #community #cultural #determined

The examined life is no picnic. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#life #picnic