#sty

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#adult #adult life #been #certainly #convinced

The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooking. Now the chef is so much into 'I want to sign that dish and say I am the one who made that dish.' ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#chef #conform #cooking #create #dish

On the Wednesday evening - that is, the day I saw her Majesty on this particular point - I had the opportunity of conferring with all those whom I proposed to submit to her Majesty as Ministers. ↗

— Robert Peel

#evening #had #her #i #majesty

Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was in my bedroom, really privately. It's still the way I write, actually. ↗

— Liz Phair

#bedroom #developed #even #i #i write

Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but totally so – or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to talk; he had drawn Fat out and now knew that Fat was totally insane. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#insanity #mental-health #psychiatrist #sanity #art

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#attractive #attractiveness #immodest #immodesty #modest

A friend to honesty and a foe to crime. ↗

— Allan Pinkerton

#foe #friend #honesty

Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car. ↗

— Robert Plant

#away #bid #boot #car #collection

I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation. ↗

— George Plimpton

#because #being #bit #generation #i

Never separate the life you lead from the words you speak. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#life