#won

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#became #began #early #fascinated #i

Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature. ↗

— Michael Faraday

#consistent #laws #nature #nothing #too

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