Hinweisen Quotes & Sayings

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers. — Todd Gitlin

A record ... is a statement, it's its own statement, its own entity, rather than being about something else. If I was a painter ... I don't paint the chair, I would paint feelings about the chair. — Bob Dylan

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety. — Andrew Jackson

I am for an art of things lost or thrown away ... I am for an art that one smokes like a cigarette ... I am for an art that flutters like a flag. — Claes Oldenburg

At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. — Jeffrey Sachs

Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people. — Iimani David

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. — Ambrose Bierce

I loved B.I.G., but not like I liked Tupac, because he was an actor, so I related to him. — Derek Luke

The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes. — Horace

I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind. — Barry Zito

There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it's going to sting when it flips, so I think I'm almost subconsciously cultivating this naivety to it all. — Feist

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world. — Joseph Butler

It looked like GQ was having a convention and all the best looking guys had decided to have a coffee at Fortnum's before going to seminars on how to cope with being really, unbelivably, fucking gorgeous — Kristen Ashley

My second biggest mistake in life, for which I have no one to blame but myself, is having accepted payments in cash from Karlheinz Schreiber. My biggest mistake in life was pretending that I wasn't trying to avoid paying taxes on that money. — Brian Mulroney