Quotes & Sayings About Consumerism In The 1920s

You long for a windfall that will let you quit and pursue your great hobby — Walter Kirn

Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation. — Mason Cooley

Become so good they can't ingore you,
and you are on the path to success.
Become so good they can't stand you,
and you are on the path to greatness. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Sometimes you've got to make your work and workouts co-exist. — Jillian Michaels

Abjure all accretions and turn off the lights. Put on some music - Leonard Cohen, say, perhaps his 'Various Positions' - and let your mind cool down. Soon you'll forget there's a word called 'stress.' — Pico Iyer

Whatever anybody believes as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else, it's fair enough, and works, and I think, is real, and matters. I don't happen to have those beliefs, as much, you know, I don't believe in those things. — George Clooney

Is it [hunting] really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn't know a game is going on? — Bill Maher

Nick opened Ruth's journal first. He leafed through several pages while shaking his head, it was like his mind was saying, "No, no, no!
He picked up Luedtke's journal and did the same flipping back and forth; suddenly he flipped back and stood completely still staring at the page he was on.He could not make his brain accept what he was seeing; both drawings were the same but labeled differently. The legend on Luedtke's had a subtitle, The Major Demons of Hell. — Lou Berthelson

If you aren't failing every now and then, you're probably playing it too safe. — Woody Allen

I'd like people to know that you can head off kidney disease, maybe prevent a transplant or stop the disease from progressing after detection by doing a simple urine test in the doctor's office. — Sean Elliott

Trust yourself. Even if you're really, really scared, never let on that you are. — Fausto Brizzi

Brett was damned good-looking. She wore a slip-over jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy's. She started all that. She was built with curves like the hull of a racing yacht, and you missed none of it with that wool jersey. — Ernest Hemingway,

In this Year of Faith, we pray to the Lord that the Church may always be a true family that brings God's love to everyone. — Pope Francis

Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking! — Maurice Gibb

We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,- - This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be otherwise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see thus, while We wear the mask. We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile; But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask! — Paul Laurence Dunbar