#sent

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#manners #moral #most #opinions #revolution

You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time. ↗

— Ken Burns

#get #historian #need #only #subject

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#designed #his #man #more #present

I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me to Paris to work in shows. It was supposed to be two weeks, but I ended up living there with my Zimbabwean boyfriend. I made enough money modeling and acting in French movies to buy a nice flat. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#agent #boyfriend #buy #ended #enough

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness. ↗

— Andrew Fastow

#accept #bitterness #could #deserve #did

Bush has never sent over a balanced budget. ↗

— Chaka Fattah

#balanced budget #budget #bush #never #over

I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#consenting adults #i #i think #into #nose

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#between #birch #bringing #consenting #consenting adults

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows. ↗

— David Byrne

#another way #any #artistic #knows #liberate

O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible. ↗

— Gabriel Byrne

#challenge #characters #complex #deeply #extent