#su

People assume that because you have graced the same stage as the star act, in front of thousands, you must be reaping similar financial rewards. This is a complete fallacy. ↗

— John Barrow

#assume #because #complete #fallacy #financial

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer. ↗

— Dave Barry

#beer #chemicals #example #for example #hydrogen

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#measurable #measure

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories. ↗

— Dave Barry

#am #faces #fact #feel #happy

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it. ↗

— Dave Barry

#american consumers #any #consumers #fat #floor

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#fool #helping #how #humor #realize

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#everything #nobody #writer

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#behavior #compassion #suffer #vegetarian #experience

California is an unbelievable state. One day I might be in a spiritual place like Joshua Tree, then before I know it, I'm eating groovy sushi in a mini-mall. I'm a Cali girl through and through. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#california #day #eating #girl #groovy

Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#back #barrymore #circus #drew #going