#takes

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. ↗

— Red Auerbach

#always #basketball #catch #defense #developed

We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done. ↗

— David Axelrod

#done #find #get #takes #world

I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a tough man to be a woman. ↗

— Hank Azaria

#dig #hurt #i #like #man

It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true. ↗

— Roger Babson

#come #dream #his #make #person

I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#first #i #i do #takes #three

Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#example #for example #idea #immediately #indeed

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#been #difficulties #future #mathematics #mistakes

I have made mistakes. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#made #mistakes

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#having #innocence #language #like #long

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

#away #beauty #causes #death #eternity