#tis

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

That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#another #competent #concerning #confidence #considerable

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#break #difficult #habit #hardest #love is

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. ↗

— Mark Twain

#more #pliable #statistics #stubborn

The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That first time was magic, it was so beautiful. And he's such a great artist. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#beautiful #before #daniels #david #first

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#artists #colossal #creative #extraordinary #great

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#ballet #every #given #important #me

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#brown #cause #even #hear #her

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#beauty #because #contains #deformities #disproportion

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

— Jean Baudrillard

#gives #judgment #more #negative #praise