#ode

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#effective #impressive #mode #most #most beautiful

I was never really a model. That somehow is in my bio. The whole thing is I was tall since I was a child - you're either a model or you play basketball. ↗

— Jules Asner

#bio #child #either #i #model

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold. ↗

— Edward Bach

#being #burying #causes #dealing #failure

I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law. ↗

— Michele Bachmann

#college #come #i #law #law school

The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity. ↗

— Mitchell Baker

#code #complexity #lines #mozilla #project

Modern art has to be what is called ‘intense.’ it is not easy to define being intense; but, roughly speaking, it means saying only one thing at a time, and saying it wrong. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#modern-art #modernity #art

There certainly is a lot of political pressure for states to adopt the new federal tax codes. But there is no law that requires them to do so. ↗

— John Barry

#certainly #codes #federal #federal tax #law

No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man. ↗

— Bernard Barton

#absolute #absolute necessity #age #below #beneath

I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it. ↗

— Edmund Barton

#conducted #connection #fort #given #i

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#being #between #clear #considering #deficiency