#bs

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. ↗

— Russell Lynes

#cynicism #intellectual #intelligence #substitute

In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#artificial #attached #banks #been #both

I believe it’s always better to share the thing itself than the reason for sharing. Unless that thing happens to be something abstract, like a reason. Like my grandpa once muttered, “I don’t need a reason to have a reason.” Actually, I have no idea what he said since he was muttering. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #muttering #reason #funny

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd. ↗

— David Lynch

#absurdity #after #because #becomes #bloody

I was obsessed with being rich and famous. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#being rich #famous #i #obsessed #rich

I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a shot of Ed and I together and Mary was right in back of us. My head turned from the camera and I saw myself laughing, because Mary was absolutely brilliant in that thing. ↗

— Gavin MacLeod

#back #because #brilliant #camera #checked

I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to. ↗

— Steven Seagal

#am #i #myself #nonviolent #only

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. ↗

— Agnes Macphail

#absolute #i #myself #other #want

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#happiness #know #presence #rarely

On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer. ↗

— Bobby Seale

#equalizer #guns #hand #help #imagination