#som

At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#amateur #commercial #disadvantage #enthusiasm #fast

I'd have to be superman to do some of the things I'm supposed to have done, I've been at six different places at six different times. ↗

— George Best

#different #different places #different times #done #i

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the person on the screen. I couldn't get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else. ↗

— George Best

#difficult #else #even #found #get

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak. ↗

— George Best

#comes #destructive #gift #great #great gift

For some ungodly reason, I end up being naked in a lot of stuff. But there is a certain grace and kudos that come with taking your clothes off on the first day, a respect that is given by the rest of the cast. ↗

— Paul Bettany

#cast #certain #clothes #come #day

Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project. ↗

— Joseph Beuys

#consumption #entire #form #gigantic #included

Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#ages #always #avidly #between #black

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#cannot #childhood #even #infancy #like

Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#cultures #draw #good #i #indefensible

They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#band #disguise #even #fact #flyers