#thou

During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home. ↗

— Daniel Boone

#although #during #entertained #give #give me

I love it when people say, 'You're nothing like I thought you were going to be' - which always means, 'I like you so much more than I thought I was going to.' ↗

— Debby Boone

#going #i #i love #like #love

The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness. ↗

— Edwin Booth

#best #books #cannot #convey #darkness

Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right. ↗

— Ernest Borgnine

#i #make #now #pictures #right

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary. ↗

— Friedrich Ebert

#democracy #freedom #matter #reactionary #using

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet. ↗

— Abdelaziz Bouteflika

#defeat #force #history #ideologies #longer

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

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating. ↗

— Ronald Firbank

#discrimination #sympathetic #very #without

I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good. ↗

— Lorraine Bracco

#because #been #being #film #forgiving