#tho

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence. ↗

— Pierre Bourdieu

#effects #ideological #more #most #need

It's one of my strongest dance pieces - having just done Play Without Words which was veering away from a lot of dance - I thought it would be nice to go back to something with almost the most dance I'd done. ↗

— Matthew Bourne

#away #back #be nice #dance #done

You know, I have guys that are almost stalkers... it is very strange. I had this one guy that e-mailed me off my site, and thought we were boyfriend and girlfriend. He then came to my house in London, I do not know how he found it. ↗

— Caprice Bourret

#boyfriend #came #found #girlfriend #guy

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet. ↗

— Abdelaziz Bouteflika

#defeat #force #history #ideologies #longer

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#change #characters #choose #count #friends

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic. ↗

— David Bowie

#awe #behind #believe #bereft #buddhist

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan. ↗

— David Bowie

#behind #dad #get #going #grow

America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed. ↗

— Allen Boyd

#battlefield #blessed #cause #debt #enough

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

#both #deeply #differences #essential #huge

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating. ↗

— Ronald Firbank

#discrimination #sympathetic #very #without