#hum

Being a dominatrix gave me the ultimate power: to sing without self-consciousness. ↗

— Amy Tan

#inspirational #inspirational

Some folks say that you can’t get rid of a problem until you shuck it. So, brother, let’s start shucking. ↗

— Richard Puz

#humor #inspiration #love-hurts #inspirational

We laugh, that we may not cry. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#happiness #humor #inspiration #joy #laughter

I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly! ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#humor #intelligence #mathematics #statistics #education

Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty. Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#hobbes #humor #intelligence #humor

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#intelligence

I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. ↗

— Jane Wagner

#humour #language #intelligence

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature. ↗

— Philip Roth

#intelligence #intelligence

Futures can and do change, something as simple as you're supposed to turn right down a street one day... In your bones u know it, and yet for reasons no one understands, you decide to debunk fate and go left. Now instead of meeting your spouse of your dreams and having a house full of kids, you get flattened by an ice-cream truck and spend the next 5 years in physical therapy recovering from the injuries; or worse you die from it. And all cause you exercised free will and turned the opposite way on a whim. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#make-you-think #thought-provoking #change

Well, the first reaction was, What smoke? When I looked and saw it, and we all ran to the back where we were far away from the flames-cowards as we are, you know-all sat around the emergency door and even tested the emergency door, ready to jump out. Of course, I said, Beatles and children first. ↗

— Larry Kane

#humor #change