#ice

I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#come #conversation #especially #funny #great

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses. ↗

— John Barton

#blind #disregard #good #how #inappropriate

We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#donors #first #first time #maybe #million

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#both #choice #democracy #feeling #give

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#artifice #artificial #artificial intelligence #intelligence #lacks

Love is pretty much a decision anyway. Just like happiness. You can decide to either love someone or not, be happy or not. The rest is just commitment to the idea. ↗

— Caprice Crane

#heaven-albright #stupid-and-contagious #love

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#handle #kind #language #practice #skillfully

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. ↗

— Vicki Baum

#ice #lonely #north #north pole #pole

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#city #life #marvelous #notice #our

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#diplomat #diplomatic #early #father #learn