#sm

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that. ↗

— J. M. Barrie

#every #every man #go #high #himself

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail. ↗

— Dave Barry

#because #citizens #cooperate #duty #feel

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#countenance #fading #flourishing #immortal #never

Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort. ↗

— Simon Travaglia

#effort #smile #takes #yourself

I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. I'm the opposite. Inside my head I'd be like, God, I'll explain to you at the end of shooting that I'm not this person. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#anybody #because #cars #character #doing

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping. ↗

— Mark Twain

#make #never #rule #sleeping #smoke

The more injuries you get, the smarter you get. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#injuries #more #smarter #you

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#gives #judgment #more #negative #praise

Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't enjoy it. It's no fun." "I know," I said. "I don't either." People think you decide to be a "radical," for God's sake, like deciding to be a librarian or a ship's chandler. You "make up your mind," you "commit yourself" (sounds like a mental hospital, doesn't it?). I said Don't worry, we could be buried together and have engraved on our tombstone the awful truth, which some day somebody will understand: WE WUZ PUSHED. ↗

— Joanna Russ

#joanna-russ #pure-awesome #beauty

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies. ↗

— Rollo May

#beauty #existentialism #art