#pears

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears. ↗

— Paul Simon

#common #disappears #even #life #music

It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far. ↗

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

#appears #been #curious #darwinian #darwinian theory

It appears a bold thing to say so when one sees how much many a modern author who knows how to make a skilful use of the Book of Chronicles has to tell about the tabernacle. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#appears #author #bold #book #chronicles

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#appears #confederacy #dunces #genius #him

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results. ↗

— Major Taylor

#appears #center #concentrate #enough #failure

Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#becomes #consciousness #construed #event #experienced

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#arises #aspect #ignorance #individualized #limited

It was a full Spears album, apparently, and each song was as ridiculous as the one before. They were catchy, yes, but so was the plague. ↗

— Heidi Cullinan

#funny #music #funny

A girl’s got to use what she’s given and I’m not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video does. So I take it to extremes. I don’t say I dress sexily on stage - what I do is so extreme. It’s meant to make guys think: ‘I don’t know if this is sexy or just weird. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#fashion #feminism #gender #humor #sexy

A little girl learns about men through her Father." Sam Cameron ↗

— Lesley Pearse

#georgia #girl #lesley #little #men