#though

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

#author #being #book #finds #first

I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else. ↗

— Sean Bean

#around #baggage #carry #character #day

I was into comics because these were my real male role models, even though at the time, I didn't know it. ↗

— Brian Michael Bendis

#comics #even #i #into #know

It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#been #cannot #clear #course #future

I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready. ↗

— Elmer Bernstein

#doing #enthusiasm #i #ready #terms

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#does #much #nothing #proceed #result

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#am #any #deeply #fear #forgo

It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#army #arrogance #because #been #boring

Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked. ↗

— Michael Behe

#actually #although #attempt #could #darwin

I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others. ↗

— Adrian Belew

#i #instructor #instruments #might #others