#vent

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

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#church #conducted #event #i #moon

I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart. ↗

— Elizabeth Blackwell

#fill #heart #i #life #must