#tis

'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#goal #life #sail #set #storm

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#buy #courts #expensive #hints #images

Touch a scientist and you touch a child. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#child #scientist #touch #you

I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#appropriated #being #british #cultural #current

I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#did #dislike #feeling #honour #i

We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it. ↗

— Richard Branson

#airways #always #battle #british #competitive

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist. ↗

— Toni Braxton

#i #selling

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#better #books #children #enter #feel

There's always a little bit of personal satisfaction when you prove somebody wrong. ↗

— Drew Brees

#bit #little #little bit #personal #personal satisfaction

Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.' ↗

— George Brett

#around #ball game #baseball #baseball game #before