#won

I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international photographer Eve Arnold and I know it sounds horrible but when she dies all her pictures are going to be worth triple. But I won't tell you how much I got them for - let's just say it was a lot. ↗

— Melanie Brown

#art #bought #collect #dies #eve

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#among #common #faces #how #many

We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#believes #bring #conservative #continuing #eastern

What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? ↗

— Robert Browning

#i #i wonder #kissing #left #soul

After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit' and 'La Cretion du Monde.' I especially enjoy his work for two pianos, 'Scaramouche.' ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#california #composition #enjoy #especially #his

I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#church #commandments #could #especially #growing

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

#essays #going #grow #grow up #had

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony. ↗

— George Farquhar

#both #fall #into #lead #matrimony

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality. ↗

— Benjamin Jowett

#cost #diminution #personality #rewards #society

Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those. ↗

— Bear Bryant

#after #beat #capable #five #game