#volution

Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#artists #creativity #dissent #failure #revolution

Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras to keep them warm. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#jennifer-donnelly #revolution #urban #beauty

Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#french-revolution #ya-novel #beauty

Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#class-struggle #excess #french-revolution #grandeur #louis-xiv

A flower's structure leads a bee toward having pollen adhere to its body . . . we don't know of any such reason why beautiful places attract humans. ↗

— David Rains Wallace

#evolution #wilderness #beauty

Youth is in revolt, but this is only the eternal revolt of youth; every generation espouses "good causes," only to forget them when "the young man begins the serious business of production and is given concrete and real social aims," After the social scientists come the journalists with their verbal inflation. The revolt is contained by overexposure: we are given it to contemplate so that we shall forget to participate. ↗

— U.N.E.F. Strasbourg

#business

That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform one species into another — that, in fact, has never been observed. ↗

— Robert J. Sawyer

#darwin #darwinism #evolution #natural-selection #neo-darwinism

The cool thing is that now that people have made this evolution where cooking is cool, people are doing it on weekends, they're doing their own challenges. It's back to cooking. And it's real cooking. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#back #challenges #cooking #cool thing #doing

Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#always #beating #constantly #creation #doing

There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid. ↗

— Denis Leary

#get #guaranteed #laid #middle #revolution