Disjuncture Theory Quotes & Sayings

I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. — Steve Buscemi

We wanted people to 3-D-print anything, not just more 3-D printers. — Bre Pettis

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

The rich feel much less need than their predecessors to account for their wealth, whether to society, to governments or to God. Their attitudes and values are not seriously challenged by anyone. The respect now shown for wealth and money-making has been the most fundamental change in Britain over four decades. — Anthony Sampson

Nothing succeeds like succession. — Andrew Garve

We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news. — Payne Stewart

Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel! — Michael Crichton

We'll look enough like we do now to recognise each other, identify each other and know each other! — David Berg

The problem is we have a standard of what evil is, Hitler, the Holocaust - THE standard of absolute evil. . . . But then everyone gets frantic as soon as you try to use the standard, nothing compares, nothing resembles - and the standard becomes unusable and nothing qualifies as Evil with a capital E. . . . I mean like a certain ex-actor-turned-president who shall go nameless sat idly and I do mean idly by and watched tens of thousands die of a plague and he couldn't even bother to say he felt bad about it, much less try to help . . . I mean do you have to pile up some magic number of bodies before you hit the jackpot and rare a comparison with you-know-who? — Tony Kushner

Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness. — Osamu Dazai

It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop) — Aldous Huxley

In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his value in terms of material payment, no matter what fortune he makes, no matter what millions he earns. But the man who works as a janitor in the factory producing that invention, receives an enormous payment in proportion to the mental effort that his job requires of him. And the same is true of all men between, on all levels of ambition and ability. — Ayn Rand

Life presents twists and turns, and there comes a point
where you have no clue if you should turn left or right. It is
pure luck or fate, and of course, let's not forget the only one
who takes the blame, God! God wants this to happen, it's all
God's plan to direct you to something better. — Kavipriya Moorthy

The town of St. Charles near St. Louis was founded by a trapper named Blanchette. There is a section that's called Frenchtown on historical markers. — Daniel Woodrell