#ass

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#chronic #contentment #drunkenness #good #humor

The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#beautiful #because #being #call #essences

Actually freestyle really comes from 'Planet Rock'. If you listen to all the freestyle records you'll hear that they are based on 'Planet Rock'. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock. ↗

— Afrika Bambaataa

#based #bass #comes #freestyle #hear

When I go on the plane to fly home, I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home. ↗

— Eric Bana

#also #because #between #breaks #capable

Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#everything #everywhere #evil #here #horrible

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#matters #obscene #pass #smutty #very

My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band. ↗

— Travis Barker

#band #before #day #dream #drums

I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I'm lazy, though I'm sure if I were in therapy for a lot of years, it would turn out to be a lot more than laziness. After awhile, it was, like, too embarrassing for me not to go on auditions. I had to be humiliated into it. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#audition #auditions #awhile #come #embarrassing

If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#bought #elite #highly #ideas #ignorant

The CD is dedicated to our dog Nell, who passed away last year. ↗

— Julia Barr

#cd #dedicated #dog #last #last year