Alchymistique Quotes & Sayings

The Skakel family, when they married into the Kennedys, was so wealthy, they could have purchased the Kennedy family. — Mark Fuhrman

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. — Satchel Paige

The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption for individuals, but widening the opportunities and what Amartya Sen calls the 'capabilities' of all through collective action. But that means, it must mean, public non-profit initiative, even if only in redistributing private accumulation. Public decisions aimed at collective social improvement from which all human lives should gain. That is the basis of progressive policy - not maximising economic growth and personal incomes. Nowhere will this be more important than in tackling the greatest problem facing us this century, the environmental crisis. Whatever ideological logo we choose for it, it will mean a major shift away from the free market and towards public action, a bigger shift than the British government has yet envisaged. And, given the acuteness of the economic crisis, probably a fairly rapid shift. Time is not on our side. — Eric Hobsbawm

I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do. — Lalo Schifrin

I'm not crazy to discuss fashion with men. I couldn't care less about their opinion. — Karl Lagerfeld

For its speculations to be taken seriously, dystopian fiction must be part of a discussion of contemporary society, a projection of ongoing political failures perhaps, or the wringing of present jeopardy for future disaster. — Sarah Hall

will to create. Yes" - as if she expected disagreement - "the will, because it is an act of will. It's more than being called upon by some convenient artistic muse. It's making a decision to offer up a bit of one's essence to the judgement of others. — Elizabeth George

Black History Month has been extended indefinitely by The Bronzeville Press. — Harold Lee Rush