Foistingness Quotes & Sayings

Illusory universality is the universality of the art of the culture industry, it is the universality of the homogeneous same, an art which no longer even promises happiness but only provides easy amusement as relief from labour. — J.M. Bernstein

Oh, foisted, is it?" cried Mr. Ormiston in righteous indignation. "Such a word! And if it means what I think it does, young man, you should get down on your knees and thank God for such foistingness! — Diana Gabaldon

They just change. Their body changes. Their abilities - the things they do that make them who they are - leave, sometimes temporarily, sometimes forever. Every day they wake up with that big what if?
And nothing is scarier than a life filled with what ifs - living by day without predictability and control. Some people end up losing feeling. Some have uncontrollable spasms. Some can't function. Some end up blind or in a wheelchair. Some end up bedridden and paralyzed.
It's hard to know who "some people" will be. — Lindsey Leavitt

Let it be understood that we cannot go outside of this alternative: liberty, inequality, survival of the fittest; not liberty, equality, survival of the unfittest. The former carries society forward and favors all its best members; the latter carries society downwards and favors its worst members. — James O'Toole

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil. — J. Frank Dobie

I'm into mellow dates with really good food. — Lauren Conrad

Everything sounds better on vinyl. It's not a trend. It's a fact. I — David Arnold

It was frightening to wake up in the morning and know that love did not last, no matter how it was treated. — Dawn Powell

We want to change the way we help unemployed people find jobs. We want to be faster and more goal oriented. — Gerhard Schroder

We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love. I imagine the fish out of water is the only fish to have an inkling of water. — J.R.R. Tolkien

What's wrong?" he asked.
"What's wrong?" she repeated. "I don't know what's going on here but you need to put that book back in the attic where you found it. Right away."
"I tried to," he said, looking sheepishly at the floor, "but it wouldn't let me."
"Wouldn't LET you? It's...a...BOOK," she shouted. — Alfred M. Struthers

I can't get upset about 'offensive to women' or 'offensive to blacks' or 'offensive to Native Americans' or 'offensive to Jews' ... Offend! I can't get worked up about it. Offend! — Jamaica Kincaid

I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned. — Orlando Bloom

When contemplating a work of art it is possible to perceive if it has been created according to the eye or to the spirit, in other words, if it projects three-dimensional reality or spiritual n-dimensionality. — Theo Van Doesburg

The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the
Trinity ... — H.L. Mencken

We are attracted to people who express the qualities we deny or repress in ourselves. — Shakti Gawain