#once

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#bad #being #blow #cannot #company

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while. ↗

— Pearl Bailey

#god-given talent #hard #just #kinds #man-made

I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far as I'm concerned, we make theories for what people have done. ↗

— David Baker

#believe #between #concerned #conflict #done

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending. ↗

— George P. Baker

#best #character #ending #enough #farce

That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve. ↗

— Johnny Ball

#bad #books #children #difficult #down

My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#artistic #began #best #concern #continue

We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour. ↗

— Travis Barker

#go #good #good songs #having #hour

I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people's participation and young faces in the audience. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#art #audience #concern #disappointed #europe

For once I want to have a relationship outside the public eye. ↗

— Lance Bass

#i #once #outside #public #public eye

I find that once you start helping others, it makes you feel better about yourself. It helps you figure out what you want to do with your own life. ↗

— Lance Bass

#better #feel #figure #find #helping