Blaines Quotes & Sayings

An animal on a leash is not tamed by the owner. The owner is extending himself through the leash to that part of his personality which is pure dog, that part of him which just wants to eat, sleep, bark, hump chairs, wet the floor in joy, and drink out of a toilet bowl. — Diane Ackerman

Money makes people bold and cosmopolitan; if you are poor, you are naturally conservative. It's not easy to be a bohemian when you have to worry about what is going to happen with you and with your next paycheck. — Antonio Munoz Molina

Ironically no one ever wants to hear what I have to say about anything. They usually argue with me to the point I want to put them through a wall. Hopefully you won't be so dense. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls. — Edmund Phelps

If you really want to be a rebel get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no one is doing that. — Mark Driscoll

Instead of feeling sorry for the exceptionally able student who has no one to talk to, we need to worry about what happens when the exceptionally able students hang out only with one another. — Charles Murray

Is it not reasonable to suspect that if existence were pointless and the universe devoid of meaning, we would never have achieved not only the ability to imagine otherwise, but even the ability to entertain this very thought - to wit, that existence is pointless and the universe devoid of meaning. — Leszek Kolakowski

I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more contrapuntal, richer. — Robert Motherwell

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already. — Helmut Newton

The ultimate test ... to see the good in evil and the evil in good. — Frank Herbert

If I'm going to be away from my family, I'd rather it be working with my friends. — Adam Scott