#rent

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#apparently #base #contempt #due #exposing

The beginning of the shows are different. One time we'll say 'Hello, Denver'. Another time we'll say 'Hello, Memphis'. It's always different. ↗

— Lance Bass

#another #another time #beginning #denver #different

When you taste things in the right order, sometimes they taste so much different than if you taste them out of order. Not that there's a right order, like by rule, but just like in a thoughtful way that makes sense. ↗

— Mario Batali

#just #like #makes #much #order

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#apparent #cohesion #ecstasy #ecstatic #finds

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

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans. ↗

— Mario Batali

#book #college #day #different #dirty

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#broke #calculation #child #cold #front

I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction. ↗

— William Banting

#affliction #alike #am #being #constitutions

Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#characters #children #enjoying #i #important

It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#collaboration #create #different #interesting #joy