#fes

Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground. ↗

— Peter Bart

#basic #become #certainly #cozy #emerging

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose. ↗

— William Bartram

#animal #artifice #attention #bestow #creation

Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#because #go #goals #i #lap

I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good. ↗

— Thomas Hooker

#beyond #confess #does #good #heart

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself. ↗

— Fanny Brice

#believe #confess #does #good #himself

The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#builds #lots #money #professional #vacant

The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#authorities #back #books #brilliance #brooks

A few dollars can buy a sugar rush, but when pleasure is followed by diabetes - that is true happiness. You look back on your life and marvel at how good you had it. You look forward to all the opportunities you have to make health changes in your lifestyle: cross-dressing, turning gay, voting democrat - no one can judge you when they see that insulin pump. Yes, diabetes is the great panacea of our age. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #lifestyle #age

For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about being a fan, it's about how you perform your fandom. That's always been interesting to me. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#affections #always #been #being #correct

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#better job #change #confess #create #delivering