#our

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#neighbor #next-door #next-door neighbor #real #talk

You cannot change what you are, only what you do. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#change #life #self-determination #change

I've had two children. I've had three boyfriends. I've had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#children #had #happen #i #lot

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself. ↗

— Pearl Bailey

#belong #cannot #else #until #you

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#critic #cure #go #house #institutions

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse. ↗

— David Bailey

#body #concern #deeply #drinking #dull

Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour. ↗

— David Bailey

#being #dangerous #fallen #favour #i

The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved. ↗

— David Bailey

#anything #artist #arty #because #certain

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#countless #cumulative #develop #efforts #even

Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#began #early #exaggerating #exciting #fact