In images, beauty is the agency that causes visual pleasure in the beholder, and, since pleasure is the true occasion for looking at anything, any theory of images that is not grounded in the pleasure of the beholder begs the question of art's efficacy and dooms itself to inconsequence.
DAVE HICKEY, The Invisible Dragon
The Nature of Beauty is in the relation of means to an end; the means, the possibilities of stimulation in the motor, visual, auditory, and purely ideal fields; the end, a moment of perfection, of self-complete unity of experience, of favourable stimulation with repose. Beauty is not perfection; but the beauty of an object lies in its permanent possibility of creating the perfect moment. The experience of this moment, the union of stimulation and repose, constitutes the unique aesthetic emotion.
ETHEL PUFFER HOWES, The Psychology of Beauty









We at Pug Life Ministries mourn the loss of Leslie Nielsen, an honorary pug and one of the finest actors of our time.
"Gay and lesbian people fall in love. We settle down. We commit our lives to one another. We raise our children. We protect them. We try to be good citizens."
California Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica (after the California Senate approved gay marriage bill AB849)
"Not just hip-hop, but America just discriminates. And I wanna just, to come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, `Yo, stop it.'"
Hip Hop Artist Kanye West (during an MTV special)
"We are not the first but I am sure we will not be the last. After us will come many other countries, driven, ladies and gentleman, by two unstopable forces: freedom and equality"
Jose Luis Rodrigueaz, Prime Minister of Spain (in a speech given after Spain legalized gay marriage)
"The reluctance to osculate has to do with affection- the idea that we'll blow someone because we desire him, but kiss him because we like him."
Simon Sheppard, author of "Sex Parties 101," "Kinkorama," and "In Deep: Erotic Stories."
"I invented the spin."
Linda Carter (in an OUT Magazine interview)
"I think everybody in their career needs to play a lesbian once- even if you're a man!"
Kristin Chenoweth (in an OUT Magazine interview)








