#mos

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#always #any #been #cheerful #history

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it. ↗

— Leonard Baskin

#believe #bit #crap #doing #every

Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money. ↗

— Charles F. Bass

#been #ceiling #changes #debt #debt ceiling

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#alone #aspect #crime #elude #fact

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark. ↗

— Mario Batali

#conversations #door #ever #expressions #family

In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted. ↗

— Mario Batali

#accepted #america #bad #deli #i

My wife Susi and my kids quite simply are the most fun of all my friends. ↗

— Mario Batali

#fun #kids #most #quite #simply

The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler. ↗

— Mario Batali

#distributed #good #hands #hitler #into

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#assassinations #dispositions #friendly #give #ill

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive. ↗

— Orlando A. Battista

#greatest #greatest weakness #how #humans #love