#ned

Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained. ↗

— Maurice de Vlaminck

#explained #good #like #painting #tasted

When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place. ↗

— Christopher Gist

#among #away #came #family #five

I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#certainly #gained #i #lot #reading

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#buddhist #catholicism #closer #committed #disillusioned

I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet. ↗

— Joely Fisher

#any #being #believe #depriving #food

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#came #close #distortions #experience #first

I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18. ↗

— Jessica Brown Findlay

#ballet #ballet dancer #dancer #eight #half

I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#dollars #find #five #hundred #i

We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#every #interest #military #nuclear #nuclear power

We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit and look-there would be a breeding ground for terrorism or a new collapsed or failed state named Iraq! ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#breeding #clear #collapsed #could #decision