#vent

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#garment #god #grasp #hears #hem

Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#film #final #implicit #like #making

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. ↗

— Peter Davison

#enable #invented #people #poetry #prayers

I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance. ↗

— Bob Black

#call #collective #exuberance #freely #generalized

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell. ↗

— Hugo Black

#any #deceiving #die #distant #duty

In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions. ↗

— James W. Black

#based #biochemical #chemical #classification #course

Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#blair #during #face #faced #had

We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#complex #cover #frank #i #i think

You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought. ↗

— Richard Blackmore

#greater #invention #mind #motion #motions

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#californians #concept #doom #invented #their