#shed

The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#conference #could #effectively #established #expressed

I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes. ↗

— Nicholson Baker

#furnished #i #live #longer #want

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev. ↗

— Russell Baker

#astonished #cold #cold war #communist #culture

I always wished I had a chance to meet an NFL player or even a college player when I was growing up in Los Angeles. ↗

— Stephen Baker

#angeles #chance #college #even #growing

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough. ↗

— Alec Baldwin

#choices #distinguished #integrity #make #only

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching. ↗

— Roger Nash Baldwin

#christian #conscription #contradiction #democratic #flat

An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it. ↗

— Matthew Barney

#art world #been #changed #crashed #doing

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#our #shed #tears #time

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#after #book #carried #days #faded

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#could #explain #feels #how #life