#ge

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic. ↗

— David Bowie

#awe #behind #believe #bereft #buddhist

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan. ↗

— David Bowie

#behind #dad #get #going #grow

His view of me and my ways were expressed with some degree of force to our family physician who, when at the age of a hundred and fifty-three I came down with the mumps, having summoned the whole family and said that I would burst before morning, was met by a reassuring observation from Adam that he wouldn't believe I was dead even if I had been buried a year. "It is the good who die young, Doctor," he said. "On that principle this young malefactor will live to be the oldest man in the world. ↗

— John Kendrick Bangs

#age

If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat. ↗

— Geoffrey Boycott

#batting #field #get #had #him

In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and I've managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#audience #comfortable #degree #either #everyone

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#excited #happiness #i #important #important ways

Compared to the United States, physicians in Europe have a much more conservative approach to joint replacement in general. ↗

— Allen Boyd

#compared #conservative #europe #general #joint

We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through. ↗

— Arthur Boyd

#education #environment #get #hope #intense

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

#both #deeply #differences #essential #huge

It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#college #early #enough #gained #high