Gristedes Brooklyn Quotes & Sayings

collectivity, on the other hand, is the place of what the seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal calls "divertissement," an untranslatable word which roughly means "distraction" or "diversion": It is the escape from life's problems, and also its invitations, into activities that in ultimate terms are meaningless. It is a constant turning to superficial actions as a way to avoid facing the true realities of human life. The soap operas and situation comedies easily become an addiction. They take the place of the "bread and circuses" of ancient Rome. There was plenty wrong with Roman society and the Roman emperors offered the diversion of food and entertainment to make people forget the banality and meaninglessness of the lives they lived. Our society does much the same and has ever so much more in the way of sophisticated tools for doing so. — William H. Shannon

I take it as an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever. — Pat Conroy

I never intended to flirt, but I liked to make girls smile. — Jessica Hawkins

How could a monster love anything but destruction? — Megan Shepherd

Dangermouse has a detatched, five bedroom pillarbox in Mayfair - surely that's rather extravagant for a secret agent. — C.S. Woolley

These, to be sure, were farfetched hopes, hopes born of despair, but hope is, after all, mostly for the desperate. — Reinaldo Arenas

It's not necessarily how many minutes you're on screen, it's the material you have. It's more important what it is you have to do than the amount of time you're there. — Christopher Walken

I'm sorry," she said. "You're right. It's not enough. Not anymore. — Jay McLean

If you saw me every day, you would actually think I am wearing the exact same gray suit. — Thom Browne

Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan - create ten businesses. — Robert Kiyosaki

It was the face of spring, it was the face of summer, it was the warmness of clover breath. Pomegranate glowed in her lips, and the noon sky in her eyes. To touch her face was that always new experience of opening your window one December morning, early, and putting out your hand to the first white cool powdering of snow that had come, silently, with no announcement, in the night. And all of this, this breath-warmness and plum-tenderness was held forever in one miracle of photographic is chemistry which no clock winds could blow upon to change one hour or one second; this fine first cool white snow would never melt, but live a thousand summers. — Ray Bradbury

the beauty of nature appears only as a reflectin of the beauty,that belongs to spirit, as an imperfect incomplete mode [of beauty],
a mode which in its substance is contained in the spirit itself"
*hegel — T.M. Knox

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest. — Erma Bombeck

246. Become yourself — Sunday Adelaja

Stay out there! Don't you dare come back in here with those evil mind tricks! (Simone)
Does it buy me any bonus points to note that you have a really nice looking ass? (Xypher) — Sherrilyn Kenyon