#to

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#book #bumped #cape #dead #desert

There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies. ↗

— Pierce Brosnan

#because #clue #consequently #counters #crap

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric. ↗

— James Broughton

#gift #joy #lyric #most #muses

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic. ↗

— James Broughton

#built #eight #had #i #lantern

I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse. ↗

— Juan Manuel Fangio

#ball #bash #billiards #cue #drive

Korea's early repayment of the full amount of loans from the IMF is a major milestone. ↗

— Horst Koehler

#early #full #imf #korea #loans

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers. ↗

— James Broughton

#being #books #farther #hundred #nourished

Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field. ↗

— David R. Brower

#another #aware #earth #field #gravitational

Basting is evil. Basting does nothing for the meat. Why? Skin. Skin is designed to keep stuff out of the bird, so basting just lets heat out of the oven. That means the turkey will take longer to cook... so don't touch that door! ↗

— Alton Brown

#cook #designed #does #door #evil

I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question. ↗

— J. Carter Brown

#aware #be prepared #deeply #dimension #factor