#us

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can. ↗

— Helen Gurley Brown

#beauty #reading #thinking #writing #you

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ↗

— Les Brown

#ago #because #long #long time #planted

We had to do a lot of rehearsals to get it so that it was playable. What it did was make you practice. That's good for any musician to have that kind of pressure. It brings things out of you that might not come out if you don't have to reach for something all the time. ↗

— Ray Brown

#brings #come #did #get #good

Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#aid #broken #bush #campaign #college

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#being #between #called #difference #first

The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#choir #first #hearing #i #i remember

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of. ↗

— Sam Raimi

#good #heroic #remind #show #stories

I cannot go to the Opera, because I have forsworn all expense which does not end in pleasing me. ↗

— Charles Townshend

#cannot #does #end #expense #go

When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that. ↗

— Frank Bruno

#brought #came #doing #got #i

Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money. ↗

— James Buchan

#back #because #boom #borrowing #came