#ted

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions. ↗

— John Dawkins

#elevated #fond #lofty #man #opinions

I love to cook, it's one of my most favorite things in the world. That's why I stopped being a vegetarian - I didn't want to serve people things I hadn't tasted myself. ↗

— Claudia Black

#cook #favorite #favorite things #hadn #i

A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab. That's the quickest way to be eliminated from my life - try that with me, and you're out. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#eliminated #life #lot #me #my life

I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from? ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#around #big #big enough #brain #come

I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days. ↗

— Bill Joy

#after #ago #days #done #editor

I wanted to be the perfect artist. I'd do three hours of media interviews a day, going to every radio station I could squeeze in. I'd sign autographs after the show until everybody left. ↗

— Clint Black

#artist #autographs #could #day #every

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player. ↗

— Karen Black

#fantastic #guitarist #harmonica #i #invited

A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#boost #bringing #citizens #claim #force

About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#books #course #crude #crude oil #doing

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#beauty #before #being #cries #defeated