#sid

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#art #arts #beginning #building #dancing

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set? ↗

— Warren Ellis

#believe #brain #inside #made #originate

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind? ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#around #aside #because #comforting #enact

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing. ↗

— Ethan Embry

#being #day #everybody #exactly #get

The president said that this is not removing a mole. You know, removing a mole, that's an outpatient sort of an operation. This was removing a cancer, removing a cancer takes more time. ↗

— Gordon England

#know #mole #more #operation #president

One of the side effects of Viagra is blurred vision. Sounds great! When I’m taking a pill to pop a stiffy, how great is it that any woman I look at has blurred features and therefore is as beautiful as an impressionistic painting?
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— Jarod Kintz

#beautiful #blurred-vision #drugs #erection #hard-on

Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’ ‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (...) ‘And?’ ‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, how mean his facilities, how ugly in form and movement, in action how like a devil, in apprehension how like a cow. The beauty of the world? The paragon of animals? To me the quintessence of dust. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#apprehension #beauty #bosco #cale #consider

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition. ↗

— Eva Figes

#against #any #because #considered #definition

By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one? ↗

— Howard Fineman

#by the time #did #like #moment #oath

President Bush will come here and there will be new "friends" of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who "liberated" them. ↗

— Robert Fisk

#bush #come #economic #fortunes #friends