#stand

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#means #nothing #sadder #standards #than

It's very hard for me to know what to say about fusion right now, inasmuch as it is not yet scientifically feasible. I just can't understand how so many people are able to predict so much about something that still isn't scientifically possible. ↗

— David R. Brower

#about #feasible #fusion #hard #how

'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows. ↗

— Alton Brown

#cookbook #cooking #dark #day #eat

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't. ↗

— Chester Brown

#how #i #i think #important #interest

I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls. ↗

— Chris Brown

#could #doing #going #heard #house

No man is an island. No man stands alone. ↗

— Dennis Brown

#island #man #stands

Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#around #behold #beneath #bowed #empires

To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#audience #avant-garde #because #certain #considered

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#today #understand #want #yesterday #you

After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#aided #ancient #beneath #came #diligent