#of

I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#box #box office #exactly #gamble #grant

I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#admire #again #alice #ask #i

They sat quietly together for a few minutes, Joe holding Fiona's hand, Fiona sniffling. No flowery words, no platitudes passed between them. Joe would have done anything to ease her suffering, but he knew nothing he might do, or say, could. Her grief would run its course, like a fever, and release her when it was spent. He would not shush her or tell her it was God's will and that her da was better off. That was rubbish and they both knew it. When something hurt as bad as this, you had to let it hurt. There were no shortcuts. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#death-and-dying #death-of-a-loved-one #sorrow #unhappiness #death

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#masses #often #plundered

I used to be hung up on my figure, but it's a waste of time. I don't believe in diets. Have four pints one night, be healthy the next. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#believe #diets #figure #four #healthy

I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#buildings #highest #i #jumped #off

Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#concept #morality #much #often #stronger

I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#better off #born #came #country #despised

The major championships have always been a special focus in my career, and as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#been #career #championships #focus #i

And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#end #end of the world #enthusiasm #i #lessen