#thing

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#alter #altered #better #spontaneously #things

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#fame #light #like #river #solid

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so. ↗

— Howard Baker

#any #challenge #considerable #cult thing #deal

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#art #been #doing #gift #had

As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#completion #feel #hair #i #i can

Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#explanation #feel #feel good #good #hopefully

I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite. ↗

— Leo Baekeland

#came #could #different #different shapes #first

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page. ↗

— Joan Baez

#been #come #crawled #down #good

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead. ↗

— David Bailey

#always #because #dead #dead people #event

Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it. ↗

— David Bailey

#everyone #gets #nothing #old #you