#ought

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. ↗

— Burt Bacharach

#spell #synonym #thought #use #word

I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students. ↗

— Burt Bacharach

#american #american music #band #because #got

Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability. ↗

— Amitabh Bachchan

#actor #adjectives #always #best #doing

I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite. ↗

— Leo Baekeland

#came #could #different #different shapes #first

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#breath #deeds #each #god #good

I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#choose #conferences #could #delegates #essential

In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results. ↗

— George P. Baker

#brought #choice #drama #eager #even

I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. ↗

— Arthur Balfour

#churchill #i #man #promise #promises

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#been #brought #happy #i #laughter

When I used to live in the Brewster Projects, I always thought it would be fantastic to have a phone. I would dream about a phone. ↗

— Florence Ballard

#always #dream #fantastic #i #i always