#ding

My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#college #go #holding #i #may

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#dare #embarrass #liberating #pretending #risk

It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#collaboration #create #different #interesting #joy

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. ↗

— Clara Barton

#diminishing #evil #happiness #human #human suffering

Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them. ↗

— John Barton

#autobiographical #either #far #i #most

The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions. ↗

— John Barton

#conclusions #draw #experiment #own #poem

I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#everybody #everybody else #full #get #i

You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting. ↗

— Karen Bass

#community #elected #front #i #know

I think everyone dreams of that nice romantic wedding. ↗

— Lance Bass

#everyone #i #i think #nice #romantic

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#equivalent #evils #existence #god #harmony