#rant

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it. ↗

— Colin Baker

#easily #end #father #four #go

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

To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#creature #faith #god #god grants #grants

If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#bought #elite #highly #ideas #ignorant

Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any. ↗

— Daisy Bates

#differ #having #least #most #opinions

I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#everybody #everybody else #full #get #i

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#because #belong #cannot #compromises #grants

Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant. ↗

— Mario Batali

#continuously #eat #else #finding #fulfillment

Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down. ↗

— Mario Batali

#become #chefs #cookbooks #different #done

Just because you eat doesn't mean you eat smart. It's hard to beat a $1.99 wing pack of three at a fast-food restaurant - it's so cheap - but that wing pack isn't feeding anyone, it's just pushing hunger back an hour. ↗

— Mario Batali

#back #beat #because #cheap #eat