Carnavalesque Quotes & Sayings

Cruel World has been my favourite track from Ultraviolence ever since I recorded it. — Lana Del Rey

When we serve the poor and the sick we serve Jesus. We must not fail to help our neighbors, because in them we serve Jesus. — Rose Of Lima

But the real and actual 'riggedness' of the Eurovision lies in the vision it presents to us as to what 'Culture' is supposed to be: a monotone, cheap, cloned industrialized song with some glamour attached. The formula is always the same: 24 cloned songs, like computer automated, and 2 'crazy' ones so it seems that all this clonedness is actually supported by creativity. But in this image of 'craziness' there is the same formula: cloned, boring songs with some carnavalesque stuff attached. The factual dynamics of the event are in fact fascist: its almost purely Riefenstahl, but the Chinese mass production version of it. It shows us one thing and one thing only: Countries are an illusion, they are all the same. There are no countries. — Martijn Benders

If you look at old football pictures, the jerseys were hanging, the sleeves were dangling, but now everything is tucked and tailored. — Andre Benjamin

I knew the marks were never going to disappear. They were always there. Permanent in the deepest sense of the word. — Keary Taylor

Someone should write a book where the main character slowly falls in love with the reader. — Unknown

And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems, as I was at Intel for a while. — Arthur Rock

All of us
all who knew her
felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on
her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her simplicity
decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain made us glow with health, her
awkwardness made us think we had a sense of humor. Her inarticulateness made us
believe we were eloquent. Her poverty kept us generous. Even her waking dreams
we used
to silence our own nightmares. — Toni Morrison

When you violate the law of growth, your influence winds down, your progress gets arrested, and many more negative consequences... — Assegid Habtewold

A real friend is one with whom you can be silent. — Anonymous

There are Mafia families that have bought magnificent houses on the North Shore, although not yet the great estates because they don't want that kind of high profile. — Nelson DeMille

Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to work in a decentralized way - that is, without anyone really directing their efforts in a particular direction - and still trust that they're going to come up with good answers. — James Surowiecki