#venti

I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#banging #came #conventional #different #different people

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#already #bad #bath #become #conspirators

Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#aged care #care #demand #few #health

Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#building #challenges #critical #dementia #early

Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#blair #during #face #faced #had

We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#complex #cover #frank #i #i think

You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought. ↗

— Richard Blackmore

#greater #invention #mind #motion #motions

I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films. ↗

— Laura Dern

#big #big studios #box #box office #consider

Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues. ↗

— Ajay Devgan

#corruption #faithfully #given #issue #issues

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#any #anything #bad #bad men #conventional