#vent

I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors. ↗

— King George V

#against #among #brethren #colonial #competitors

I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#across #appealing #article #book #came

In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.' ↗

— Brad Holland

#believe #described #event #how #just

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#feminine #invention #masculine #nothing #virtue

The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#became #combination #cultures #eventually #many

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. ↗

— Norman Maclean

#eventually #into #merge #river #runs

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#any #arrogance #been #claim #extraordinary

The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#character #compilation #even #hate #her

The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong. ↗

— Robert Maxwell

#children #difference #grown-ups #i #invented

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between. ↗

— John McPhee

#go #inventing #letters #liked #without