Frans Liefde Quotes & Sayings

I've got to stop getting obsessed with human beings and fall in love with a chair. Chairs have everything human beings have to offer, and less, which is obviously what I need. Less emotional feedback, less warmth, less approval, less patience and less response. The less the merrier. Chairs it is. I must furnish my heart with feelings for furniture. — Carrie Fisher

I'm stupidly curious. I will go and touch anything until I find out that it's very harmful. — Steven Yeun

Unsurprisingly, planning was most admired and advocated at the political extremes. — Tony Judt

SOCIETY AS COMPULSIVE AND ADDICTED Our society is highly addictive. We have sixty million sexual abuse victims. Possibly seventy-five million lives are seriously affected by alcoholism, with no telling how many more through other drugs. We have no idea of the actual impact on our economy of the billions of tax-free dollars that come from the illegal drug trade. Over fifteen million families are violent. Some 60 percent of women and 50 percent of men have eating disorders. We have no actual data on work addiction or sexual addictions. I saw a recent quotation that cited thirteen million gambling addicts. If toxic shame is the fuel of addiction, we have a massive problem of shame in our society. — John Bradshaw

Night can't cloak your scarlet dream. Accept Desire's call. — P.C. Cast

Film-making is a physically hard job. — Alan Parker

Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate. — Mary Beard

The soul is the prison of the body. — Michel Foucault

Heaven and earth are my inner and outer coffins. The sun, moon, and stars are my drapery, and the whole creation my funeral procession. What more do I want? — Huston Smith

How many things would be different in everyone's surroundings if we hadn't lived? How a good word many have encouraged some fellow and did something to him that he did it differently and better than he would otherwise. And through him somebody else was saved. How much we contribute to each other, how powerful we each are-and don't know it. — Rudolf Dreikurs

I wanted to speak my conscience and have it matter. — Sue Monk Kidd

But now what was I worth? The books I discovered at the behest of my intellectually superior professors are now coming to me thanks to an algorithm developed to suggest what I should buy based on what other similar shoppers have also bought... — Keith Buckley

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. — Marshall McLuhan