#vin

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#civilization #female #grass #had #hands

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#against #flux #freezes #giving #halts

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#desire #having #sin

Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#dissolved #divine #genius #her #hollywood

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#believing #consist #consists #does #faithful

It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living. ↗

— Dave Thomas

#closest #ever #experienced #i #living

I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#chaos #emotion #get #good #i

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#carry #character #comedy #done #earlier

You just want to be able to have a nice career and make a living at it. ↗

— Rafael Palmeiro

#career #just #living #make #nice

There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#better ways #blue #blue jeans #corps #exchange