Choice Words: Selected Quotations from Tumblr
I’ve been using the t-log, as I like to call it (because Tumblelog sounds even more ridiculous) for only two months, and yet have used it to capture the best of many of the provocative finds (art, video, links, quotes) that I come across nearly daily on my paths across the web. I thought I would share some of the best quotes from those two months. All completely different, all chosen based on personal interest.
There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don’t.
-Robert Benchley (for some reason no link captured for where I found this one)
…to become-animal is to become a body-without-organs, to cut across the strata of organism, significance and subjectification that serve to (ab)normalise us as biological, social and sexual beings (1). In becoming-animal the body becomes an event, the action that it itself becomes; signification enters into deviation (2), identity into variance; the subject becomes a deject (3), the abject other than object. To replace human identity with an interspecific performativity is to go some way towards destabilising the autonomous Cartesian subject and mobilizing an ex-centric subject always in process. To become-animal is to be swept up by the visceral and to shed the backbone of knowledge and discourse so inherently bound to systems of power, processes of (hetero) normativity and mechanisms of alienation and exclusion (of bodies, behaviours and subjects).
-Deleuze (via Antennae Issue 4 - pdf)
I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I’m a garbage can like everyone else. And we were about three months late in filing a fictitious business name so I threatened to call the company Apple Computer unless someone suggested a more interesting name by five o’clock that day. Hoping to stimulate creativity. And it stuck. And that’s why we’re called Apple.
-Steve Jobs (via Steve Pavlina)
It’s made me happier and kinder and a more compassionate human being. Not just compassionate about animals, but compassionate about people also, and the environment. None of these things were things I was aiming for [when I became vegan], but they all came about and were surprises. [Back then,] Kim and I, we were very negative people. We just cared about ourselves. Eating this way changes your whole energy and your whole spirit.
-The Skinny | Sun-Sentinel Blogs | A Skinny Bitch author speaks
Interview with Rory Freedman. I’m reviewing Skinny Bitch for a newsletter published by the National Capital Vegetarian Association (NCVA).
People often ask me, “Which one is more important, diet or exercise?” I reply, “Do you want your airplane to have one wing or two?”
-The Skinny | Sun-Sentinel Blogs
Disney likes to think of the Princesses as role models, but what a sorry bunch of wusses they are. Typically, they spend much of their time in captivity or a coma, waking up only when a Prince comes along and kisses them. The most striking exception is Mulan, who dresses as a boy to fight in the army, but—like the other Princess of color, Pocahontas—she lacks full Princess status and does not warrant a line of tiaras and gowns. Otherwise the Princesses have no ambitions and no marketable skills, although both Snow White and Cinderella are good at housecleaning.
Bonfire of the Disney Princesses
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