#ape

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#alienation #day #escape #left #only

Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#cannot #disgust #first #hand #horrors

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#could #disgust #hands #his #honor

Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#diapers #heroes #just #wear

I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#become #cheapest #dream #flying #had

Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape. ↗

— Shania Twain

#great #high #music #natural

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#age #being #congress #die #enough

I'd go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didn't have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to people's standards. ↗

— Amanda Beard

#anybody #because #escape #face #felt

Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#also #collections #did #good #had

Oprah is wildly successful, and she's a brilliant businesswoman. She's also somebody who's overcome a ton of demons in her own life, and that's really what shaped her. I think the same could be said for me. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#brilliant #businesswoman #could #demons #her