#hum

Ritual he liked, but compulsory routine he hated. Thus, he resented every minute that he now had to surrender to showering, shampooing, shaving, and flossing and brushing his teeth. If mere men could devise self-defrosting refrigerators and self-cleaning ovens, why couldn't nature, in all its complex, inventive magnificence, have managed to come up with self-cleaning teeth? "There's birth," he grumbled, "there's death, and in between there's maintenance. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#life #tom-robbins #death

Physical contact is a human necessity. ↗

— David Byrne

#human #necessity #physical

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#author #character #consistent #drew #ever

What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage collector does. People make actors important. ↗

— James Caan

#being #collector #does #garbage #honestly

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

#control #humble #modest #simple #your

When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces. ↗

— Robert Cailliau

#faces #great #humanity #humankind #many

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#human nature #instinctively #nature #obscurity #ordinariness

This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section. ↗

— John Callahan

#feminist #humor #section

We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#alcoholism #alienation #dependency #human #incidence

To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#discussion #educators #expect #explanations #hardly