#ass

In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps. ↗

— Dave Barry

#american #any #apparently #had #high

I'd rather send out a mass email then hang posters all over the place. ↗

— Todd Barry

#hang #i #mass #out #over

I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up. ↗

— Todd Barry

#bring #celebrity #classy #experience #i

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#everything #nobody #writer

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#behavior #compassion #suffer #vegetarian #experience

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world. ↗

— Lionel Barrymore

#foot #hand #hollywood #masses #over

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people. ↗

— John Barth

#attributed #everything #intrinsically #itself #nothing

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#classification #code #forget #language #legislation

I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone. ↗

— John Barton

#always #because #been #experience #feel

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#classical #dance #i #interest #interested