#rod

People wanted to be friends with me for not the right reasons. They'd introduce me to somebody else as the Olympian or the swimmer. I didn't want to stand out. I wanted to blend in. ↗

— Amanda Beard

#else #friends #i #introduce #me

Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked. ↗

— Michael Behe

#actually #although #attempt #could #darwin

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind. ↗

— Clive Bell

#activities #air #art #bosom #complicated

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer. ↗

— Troian Bellisario

#director #mom #producer #successful #television

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#get #say #woman #writer

PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction. ↗

— Hans Bender

#below #center #concepts #direction #does

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#does #impulses #introduces #optics #psychoanalysis

And, in the case of schools, or anything else, if you have something that is forcing you to do better than you did the day before, it makes you look forward and it makes you think in a way that's going to make the product better, which is the students and the education. ↗

— Craig Benson

#before #better #case #day #did

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#been #blessed #by-product #middle #middle age

Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours. ↗

— Julie Benz

#agent #angeles #director #everybody #hours