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# David Whyte (poet)

David Whyte (born 2 November 1955) is an Anglo-Irish poet. He has said that all of his poetry and philosophy are based on "the conversational nature of reality". His book The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America (1994) topped the best-seller charts in the United States.

## Quotes

* The ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone, and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them, and to have believed in them, and sometimes, just to have accompanied them, for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.
** Source: on Being (podcast)
* ...one of the powerful dynamics of leadership is being visible. One of the vulnerabilities of being visible is that when you’re visible, you can be seen; and when you can be seen, you can be touched; and when you can be touched, you can be hurt.
** Source: on Being (podcast)

## References

* ↑ Whyte, David. River Flow. Langley: Many Rivers. Back Cover. ISBN 978-193288727-3.
* ↑ Whyte, David (2012). River Flow (2nd ed.). Many Rivers. pp. 265–266. ISBN 978-1-932887-28-0.
* ↑ Whyte, David (2012). River Flow (2nd ed.). Langley: Many Rivers. pp. 267. ISBN 978-1-932887-28-0.
* ↑ Life at the Frontier: The Conversational Naure of Reality. Ted Talk.
# David Wu

David Wu (born April 8, 1955) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Oregon's 1st congressional district from 1999 to 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

## Quotes

* Too many Oregonians know the heartbreak of a jobless economic recovery. To create new, high-paying jobs, we need investment in Main Street as well as Wall Street.
** David Wu (January 20, 2004) "Oregon Issues and the President's State of the Union." United States House of Representatives. (Available online at 108th Congress (2003-2004))
# David Yezzi

David Dalton Yezzi (born 1966) is an American poet, editor and professor.

## Quotes
### Interview with Ernest Hibert (2006)

Interview ( Unterberg Poetry Center) with Ernest Hibert- 'Fiction' The Cortland Review issue 32 June 2006
* The person who wrote the poem can tell you more about the poem than anyone else.
* Not every poet is a great reader of his own work.
* Language has an incantory power. The source qualities of language go to the very roots of our experience of poetry.
# David Zabriskie

David Zabriskie (born 12 January 1979) is a retired professional road bicycle racer from the United States, who competed as a professional between 1999 and 2013.

## Quotes

* So my change in diet was really a gradual process. I had cut meat out of my diet and then had a hard time trying to reintroduce it, same thing with dairy. The transition was nearly complete. The last thing I had to cut out was the eggs. I had met some healthy athletes that adhere to a vegan diet and I just believe it's a super healthy way to go. I don't even like to call it a diet because it's not something I plan on stopping. It's truly a lifestyle choice for me.
** "5 Minutes With Dave Zabriskie", interview with Peloton Magazine (November 2010).
* I think a lot of people see food in terms of whether it's going to make them fat or make them skinny. I'm seeing food in terms of how it's going to make me think and will it give me clarity.
** "Riding the Tour De Vegetable", interview with The Wall Street Journal (29 June 2011).
# Beef Bonanza

Beef Bonanza is a singer and guitarist for the punk rock band The Bones .

## Lyrics

* Why do I always bang my head against the wall So sick and tired of doing, doing everything wrong
** Flatline Fever
* I thought I'd write you a lovesong And I sang it to you over the phone
** Half of nothing

## External links

* Official The Bones website
# Beekeeping in India

Beekeeping in India has been mentioned in ancient Vedas and Buddhist scriptures. Rock paintings of Mesolithic era found in Madhya Pradesh depict honey collection activities. Scientific methods of beekeeping, however, started only in the late 19th century, although records of taming honeybees and using in warfare are seen in the early 19th century. After Indian independence, beekeeping was promoted through various rural developmental programs. Five species of bees that are commercially important for natural honey and beeswax production are found in India.

## Quotes

* The collection of honey is depicted in three paintings at Pachmarhi and one at Bhimbetka. A painting in the Jambudwip shelter at Pachmarhi shows a man driving out bees and a woman approaching the beehive with a pot. Both are standing on ladders. In a second Pachmarhi painting at Imlikhoh shelter a woman is driving away the bees. In a third painting at Sonbhadra shelter two men climbing a scaffold are surrounded by bees. The painting at Bhimbetka shows a man touching a beehive with a round-ended stick. The man holds a basket on his back and appears to be suspended by a rope. There are three men below him, including one standing on the shoulders of another man.
** (MATHPAL 1985:182). . MATHPAL 1985: The Hunter-Gatherer Way of Life Depicted in the Mesolithic Rock Paintings of Central India. Mathpal, Yashodhar. pp.177-183, in "Recent Advances in Indo-Pacific Prehistory: Proceedings of the International Symposium held at Poona, December 19-21, 1978". ed V N Misra, Peter Bellwood. E.J.Brill, Leiden, Nederland, 1985.
# Beer in the United Kingdom

Beer in the United Kingdom has a long history, and has quite distinct traditions. Historically the main styles were top-fermented Bitters, Porters, Stouts and Milds, but after World War II lagers took over half the market by volume. The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) was founded in 1971 and has encouraged the preservation and revival of traditional styles of ale. In particular CAMRA has promoted cask conditioned beer, which completes its maturation in casks in the cellar of the pub rather than at the brewery. As of 2014 the UK drank 634 million pints (3.6 million hectolitres) of cask ale, representing 60% of ale in pubs and restaurants and 17% of all beer in pubs.

## Quotes

* What two ideas are more inseparable than Beer and Britannia?
** Sydney Smith, as quoted in The Smith of Smiths: Being the Life, Wit and Humour of Sydney Smith, by Hesketh Pearson

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Beer in the United Kingdom on Wikipedia
# Benjamin Watson

Benjamin Watson ( December 18, 1980 –) is an American football player.

## Quotes

* It’s a women’s issue, but a lot of the women wouldn’t be having abortions if the men would step up and be a part of what they are already biologically a part of. Raising children and having children, even though the women birthed the child, is designed for two people to do it. And there is so much undue stress and pressure on the woman if the other one isn’t there. So, really one thing we do is say it’s a woman’s issue, forcing the woman to have to deal with it on her own, so that way men don’t have to. As a man, I am going to passive-aggressively tell you you are in control, when really I am just telling you that because it makes my life easier, cause that way I don’t have to step up and make a decision. I obviously think that a man has just as much invested in that child as the woman does. He need to be there to support her through the physical changes of the pregnancy, and help and provide emotional strength, and do it together. As much as he has a role in making the baby in the first place, it needs to take both of them the whole way through. Any idea that a man doesn’t have a role in it is not true, and is simply more about politics and making a man’s life easier.
** Benjamin Watson Interview, Part Two

## External links

* Official Site
# Benjamin Wiker

Benjamin Wiker (1960–) is a Roman Catholic ethicist.

## Quotes

* Society needs the Church to draw moral lines faster than those who are erasing them, and so cure confusion with clarity. The Church’s claim, and rightfully so, is that she is in possession of the moral compass, one that is constructed according to the laws of our nature, and one that is immeasurably enhanced in its precision by the upgrades of revelation, one that is accurate no matter how far we sinful humans wander from the right course.
** The Church’s Broken Moral Compass (December 20, 2018)
* As one becomes more habituated to the vice, one becomes less and less able to act otherwise. The vicious are marked by slavery to their vice, not freedom.
** The Problem of Tolerance—and a Cure (February 18, 2020)
# Benno Moiseiwitsch

Benno Moiseiwitsch CBE (22 February 1890 – 9 April 1963) was a Ukrainian-born British pianist.

## Quotes
### Playing in the Grand Style (1950)

Playing in the Grand Style (1950)
* The critics are occasionally pleased to compliment a pianist by saying that he plays in the grand style. Exactly what do they mean by that phrase? In the broadest sense, they mean a style of playing which penetrates deeper than the physical conquering of the piano. It concerns itself with the release of music. The “grand style” moved listeners through interpretation.
* Any artist worth his salt thinks music far more than he practices. Practice divides the mind between music and the mechanics of managing hands and feet. Inward hearing has its roots in musical thought.
* I am startled, occasionally, to find “intelligence” used as the antithesis of “feeling”, as though the two played against each other. Nothing could be further from the truth. No intelligent interpretation is lacking in emotional values. What this probably means is that, depending on gifts and degree of maturity, some natures emphasize brain over heart. Where such an imbalance occurs, it must be corrected by conscious and concentrated application to emotional content. If an interpretation is unduly cerebral, liveness and color can be infused into it by attention to whether the theme is now in the right hand, now in the left; whether it is supported by an accompaniment which has significance of its own, or merely hums along.

## Quotes about Moiseiwitsch

* Like nearly all of the Leschetizky pupils, he represented the last vestiges of romanticism as it was actually practiced in the romantic period — which means pliancy, a perpetually singing line, concentration on inner voices and a free approach and a free approach to the notes. In Moiseiwitsch's case, freedom was always tempered by impeccable musicality.
** Harold C. Schonberg, The Great Pianists (1987), p. 331
# Benjamín Jiménez Hernández

Benjamín Jiménez Hernández (31 March 1938 – 26 November 2020) was a Mexican prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Culiacán.

## Quotes

* This most shameful situation is making a fierce intent to rid us of our social and city peace and tranquility. We need to make people aware of the dignity of every human person, his right to live and work in fraternal harmony and live together in an environment of respect and community stability.”
** The Church requests that the wave of violence and murder end, as it is “a grave threat to Mexico’s peace and reveals the breakdown of the social fabric” (15 May 2008) Fides News Agency
# Benny & Joon

Benny & Joon is a 1993 romantic comedy film about how two misfits, Sam (Johnny Depp) and Juniper/Joon (Mary Stuart Masterson), find each other and fall in love.

## Sam

* You know, it seems to me that, I mean, except for being a little mentally ill, she's pretty normal.
* Oh, oh Benny, hey Benny, thanks for the couch... um Mike made me sleep under the sink.
* Mommy?
* Ruthie, do you got any avocados?

## Joon

* Some cultures are defined by their relationship to cheese.
* Don't underestimate the mentally ill. We know how to count.
* Having a Boo Radley moment, are we?

## Benny

* I am serious. I'm always serious. I'm too serious.
* You can't bet a human being!

## Dialogue

    Sam: You don't like raisins?
    Joon: Not really.
    Sam: Why?
    Joon: They used to be fat and juicy and now they're twisted. They had their lives stolen. Well, they taste sweet, but really they're just humiliated grapes. I can't say I am a big supporter of the raisin council.
    Sam: Did you see those, those raisins on TV? The ones that sing and dance and stuff?
    Joon: They scare me.
    Sam: Yeah me too.
    Joon: It's sick. The commercial people they make them sing and dance so people will eat them.
    Sam: It's a shame about raisins.
    Joon: You're out of your tree.
    Sam: It's not my tree.
    Joon: We have to tell him.
    Benny: What? Tell me what?
    Sam: Uh, Benny, Joon and uh and I are uh... you know.
    Benny: Hi, I'm Benny
    Sam: With an N?
    Benny: Yeah. Two of them. And this is Joon.
    Sam: With an N?
    Joon: One.

## Cast

* Johnny Depp - Sam
* Mary Stuart Masterson - Juniper 'Joon' Pearl
* Aidan Quinn - Benjamin 'Benny' Pearl
* William H. Macy - Randy Burch
* Julianne Moore - Ruthie
* Oliver Platt - Eric
* CCH Pounder - Dr. Garvey (as C.C.H. Pounder)
* Dan Hedaya - Thomas
* Joe Grifasi - Mike

## External links

* Benny & Joon quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Reviews at Rotten Tomatoes
# Alexander Schmemann

Alexander Dmitrievich Schmemann (13 September 1921 – 13 December 1983), was an influential Orthodox priest, theologian, and author.

## Quotes

* "The real human tragedy is living a noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world."
* “The sacrament of matrimony is wider than family. It is the sacrament of divine love, as the all-embracing mystery of being itself, and it is for this reason that it concerns the whole Church, and – through the Church – the whole world."

## Sources

* Smith, Randall (15 May 2019). The beauty of a mother at mass. The Catholic Thing.
# Alexander Rybak

Alexander Igorevich Rybak (Belarusian: Аляксандр Ігаравіч Рыбак, Russian: Александр Игоревич Рыбак; born 13 May 1986 in Minsk, Soviet Union) is a Norwegian singer-composer, violinist, pianist, writer, and actor of Belarusian descent. Representing Norway in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow, Russia, Rybak won the contest with 387 points — the second highest tally any country has achieved in the history of Eurovision — with "Fairytale", a song he wrote and composed.

## Quotes

* I'm in love with a fairytale, even though it hurts. 'Cause I don`t care if I lose my mind; Im already cursed.
** "Fairytale" (2009).
* Every day we started fighting. Every night we fell in love. No one else could make me sadder. But no one else could lift me high above.
** "Fairytale" (2009).
* People call me stupid for treating you like a queen, but I dont even worry `cause you`re my unforeseen. And I hope that you`ll be with me, if only in my dreams. But here you are next to me and you`re glad, or so it seems.
** "Funny Little World" (2009).
* Don`t promise me forever, just love me day by day.
** "Funny Little World" (2009).
* Your boyfriends might be angry, my girlfriends might be blue. But no one can deny it, from now on I love you.
** "Funny Little World" (2009).
# Alexander Radcliffe (writer)

Alexander Radcliffe (c. 1653 – in or before 1696) was an English poet.

## The Ramble, &c. (1682)

    The Ramble, an Anti-Heroick Poem: Together With Some Terrestrial Hymns and Carnal Ejaculations (1682)
* To what intent or purpose was Man made, Who is by birth to misery betrayed? Man in his tedious course of life runs through More plagues than all the Land of Egypt knew. Doctors, divines, grave disputations, puns, Ill-looking citizens and scurvy duns; Insipid squires, fat bishops, deans and chapters, Enthusiasts, prophecies, new rants and raptures; Pox, gout, catarrhs, old sores, cramps, rheums and aches; Half-witted lords, double-chinned bawds with patches; Illiterate courtiers, Chancery suits for life, A teazing whore, and a more tedious wife; Raw Inns of Court men, empty fops, buffoons, Bullies, robust round aldermen, and clowns; Gown-men which argue, and discuss, and prate, And vent dull notions of a future state; Sure of another world, yet do not know Whether they shall be saved, or damned, or how. ’Twere better then that Man had never been, Than thus to be perplexed: God save the Queen.
** "As Concerning Man"
* Fondling forbear, ’tis Heresy to think There is a Mistress equal to thy Drink; Or if in love with any, ’t must be rather With that plump Girl that does call Bacchus Father. Thou mayst out-look, arm’d with her warm embrace, Ten thousand Volleys shot from Woman’s Face, Who wou’d withstand without this Aid Divine Ten thousand times as many Tears of thine; As many Sighs and Prayers would be her sport, Exalted she so long maintains her Fort. But when Diviner Sack hath fir’d thy Blood, Creating Flames which cannot be withstood; To which is added Confidence as great As his, that aim’d at Jove’s Celestial Seat; Boldly march on, not granting her the leisure Of Parly; ’tis the Speed augments the Pleasure. If she cry out, with Kisses stop her Breath; She cannot wish to die a better Death. Tell her the pleasant passages between The God of War and Love’s more gentle Queen. When feeble Vulcan came, and in a fear Lest they wou’d not continue longer there, He chain’d ’em to the sport, with an intent To keep such Lovers for a Precedent; Glad to behold a tempting pleasure that His weak Endeavours never could create. Then stroke her Breasts those Mountains of Delight, Whose very Touch would fire an Anchorite. Next let thy wanton Palm a little stray, And dip thy Fingers in the Milky Way: Thus having raiz’d her, gently let her fall, Love’s Trumpets sound, Now Mortal have at all. A happy end thus made of all your sport, Lead her where every Lover shou’d resort, Where Madam Sack’s enthron’d, the tempting’st Lass That e’er was seated in a Venice Glass. Last, that this sense of Pleasure may remain, Cast away Thought and fall to Drink again. Drink off the Glasses, swallow every Bowl, And pity him that sighs away his Soul For that poor trifle Woman, who is mine With one small Gallon of Immortal Wine. To get a Mistress Drinking is the knack; Love’s grand existence is Almighty Sack.
** "The Canary Mistress"
# Alexander Rodchenko

Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (5 December 1891 – 3 December, 1956 was a Russian artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of Constructivism and Russian design; he was married to the artist Varvara Stepanova.

## Quotes

* I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue and yellow. I affirmed: it's all over. Basic colors. Every plane is a plane and there is to be no representation.
** Quote in: 'The Death of Painting'; from the MoMA-website: Interactives: texts
** Rodchenko is looking back: in 1921 he executed what were arguably some of the first true monochromes (artworks of one color; source, Wikipedia:Rodchenko)
* [my goal is] to photograph not a factory but the work itself from the most effective point of view.. ..in order to show the grandness of a machine, one should photograph not all of it but give a series of snapshots.
** Quote, 1930: from Rodchenko lecture at the October group's meeting; as quoted by Margarita Tupitsyn in Chapter 'Fragmentation versus Totality: The Politics of (De)framing', in The great Utopia - The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932; Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1992, p. 486
** the issue was not to take 'photo pictures' of the entire object but to make 'photo stills' of characteristic parts of an object
* One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again.
** Quoted on Wikipedia:Rodchenko

## Quotes about Aleksander Rodchenko

* ..one should not depict an isolated building or a tree which may be very beautiful but which will be.. ..painting, will be aesthetics.
** Osip Brik, in his essay, 1928; as quoted by Margarita Tupitsyn in Chapter 'Fragmentation versus Totality: The Politics of (De)framing', in The great Utopia - The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932; Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1992, p. 486
** Brik criticized Rodchenko's photography for its detachment from the "social demands" of the time and for attempting to resolve purely painterly goals by means of photo language

## External links

* biography of Alexander Rodchenko, on the MoMA-website
* paintings and photo's of Rodchenko, on WikiArt
# Alexander Scriabin

Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (6 January 1872 – 27 April 1915) was a Russian composer and pianist.

## Quotes about Scriabin

* Scriabin always said that everything within his later compositions was strictly according to 'law.' He said that he could prove this fact. However, everything seemed to conspire against his giving a demonstration. One day he invited Taneyev and I to his apartment so he could explain his theories of composition. We arrived and he dilly-dallied for a long time. Finally, he said he had a headache and would explain it all another day. That 'another day' never came.
** Faubion Bowers (1973), The New Scriabin, p.129. New York: St. Martin's Press.
* Skryabin comes so close to the twelve-note system that it seems probable he would have taken it as the next logical step.
** Ellon Carpenter, quoted in Faubion Bowers (1973), The New Scriabin, p.171. New York: St. Martin's Press.
* Scriabin isn't the sort of composer whom you'd regard as your daily bread, but is a heavy liqueur on which you can get drunk periodically, a poetical drug, a crystal that's easily broken.
** Sviatoslav Richter, in Bruno Monsaingeon, Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations
# Alexander Shields

Alexander Shields or Sheilds or Sheills (January 1661 – 1700) was a Scottish, Presbyterian, nonconformist minister, activist, and author.

## Quotes

* It is certain, higher powers are not to be resisted; but some persons in power may be resisted. The powers are ordained of God; but kings commanding unjust things are not ordained of God to do such things; but to apply this to tyrants, I do not understand. Magistrates in some acts may be guilty of tyranny, and yet retain the power of magistracy; but tyrants cannot be capable of magistracy, nor any one of the scripture-characters of righteous rulers. They cannot retain that which they have forfeited, and which they have overturned; and usurpers cannot retain that which they never had. They may act and enact some things materially just, but they are not formally such as can make them magistrates, no more than some unjust actions can make a magistrate a tyrant. A murderer, saving the life of one and killing another, does not make him no murderer: once a murderer ay a murderer, once a robber ay a robber, till he restore what he hath robbed: so once a tyrant ay a tyrant, till he makes amends for his tyranny, and that will be hard to do. [...] The concrete does specificate the abstract in actuating it, as a magistrate in his exercising government, makes his power to be magistry; a robber, in his robbing, makes his power to be robbery; an usurper in his usurping makes his power to be usurpation; so a tyrant in his tyrannizing, can have no power but tyranny. As the abstract of a magistrate is nothing but magistracy, so the abstract of a tyrant is nothing but tyranny. It is frivolous then to distinguish between a tyrannical power in the concrete, and tyranny in the abstract; the power and the abuse of the power: for he hath no power as a tyrant, but what is abused. [...] It is altogether impertinent to use such a distinction, with application to tyrants or usurpers, as many do in their pleading for the owning of our oppressors; for they have no power, but what is the abuse of power.
** A Hind Let Loose, 1687

## External links

* Works by Alexander Shields at Project Gutenberg
* Works by or about Alexander Shields at Internet Archive
* Authority control: WorldCat search