Galison Puzzles Quotes & Sayings

Unless we are willing to accept our artists as they are, the answer to the question, "Who speaks for America today?" will have to be: the advertising agencies. They are entirely capable of showing us our unparalleled prosperity and our almost classless society, and no one has ever accused them of not being affirmative. Where the artist is still trusted, he will not be looked to for assurance. Those who believe that art proceeds from a healthy, and not from a diseased, faculty of the mind will take what he shows them as a revelation, not of what we ought to be but of what we are at a given time and under given circumstances; that is , as a limited revelation but revelation nevertheless. — Flannery O'Connor

Anyone who's sold herself for somebody else once isn't going to do it again. — Henrik Ibsen

It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same. — Hermann Maier

I should have voted for the first Iraq war. George Bush did that one very well. I had been skeptical. I was afraid that George Bush was going to treat the first Iraq war the way his son treated the second. — Barney Frank

Salvation has absolutely nothing to do with human merit and absolutely everything to do with divine mercy. — David Platt

We recognise that Soul is eternal; It has no beginning or ending. Therefore, when a person leaves his physical body, he continues to exist, usually on a higher plane of consciousness. — Harold Klemp

We need to use all the resources at our disposal in order to prosper. We need more employment, and we need employment to be spread more fairly across society. — David Blunkett

It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to want, then life begins to ram her fish and chips down your gullet until you puke, and then the puke down your gullet until you puke the puke, and then the puked puke until you begin to like it. — Samuel Beckett