#thou

My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year. ↗

— Roberto Benigni

#brought #drink #had #horrible #i

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#feared #four #hostile #more #newspapers

Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#apart #around #audience #being #commissioned

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all. ↗

— John Berger

#character #death #itself #modern #notion

Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me. ↗

— Dennis Bergkamp

#came #clubs #i #into #knew

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow. ↗

— George Berkeley

#body #every #exist #formed #ideas

Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#course #difficult #economy #general #goals

The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#bank #central #central bank #concerns #make

I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling. ↗

— Elmer Bernstein

#found #i #instant #made #millions

It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#breakfast #daily #death #destruction #fact