#which

The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.' ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#bbc #beasts #best #blue #comparison

The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#business #concessions #government #happen #insistent

Those three chords were part of my life - G, F, Bb - yeh, it is, it is, and I can't help noticing it. But there have been other things nearly as close to it which people haven't noticed, other things we have done. ↗

— Ray Davies

#chords #close #done #haven #help

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#beauty #before #being #cries #defeated

Also, I think there are huge reactions sometimes, which are also mysterious. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#huge #i #i think #mysterious #reactions

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not. ↗

— Lewis Black

#great #i #joke #odd #say

I've got stuff about airline mergers, which just shows that my stand-up is getting more insane by the minute. ↗

— Lewis Black

#airline #getting #got #i #insane

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success. ↗

— Dorthea Brande

#act #break #command #face #fail

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

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind. ↗

— William Blackstone

#civil #civil liberty #diminishes #doing #fellow