Hirelings 5e Quotes & Sayings

TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new ideas or social changes have already been fought for in the real world of the streets, or in the bedroom or even the law courts long before they reach the screen. By the time you see it on prime time, it's usually all over and done with, whatever it was. Television by definition is not avant garde. It is often reactionary and always sentimental. — Jennifer Stone

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it. — David Antin

Don't let schooling interfere with your education. — Mark Twain

Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd
Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind. — John Milton

I've heard New York actors say Chicago actors intimidate them because apparently we're the real nitty-gritty actors who're in a town where being onstage doesn't necessarily get you anything except your craft. — Scott Adsit

I always feel like I can do anything. That's the main thing people are controlled by: thoughts and perceptions of yourself ... If you're taught you can't do anything, you won't do anything — Kanye West

Louisville, KY - Barack Obama lost Kentucky in 2012 by 23 points, yet the state remains closely divided about re-electing the man whose parliamentary skills uniquely qualify him to restrain Obama's executive overreach. So, Kentucky's Senate contest is a constitutional moment that will determine whether the separation of powers will be reasserted by a Congress revitalized by restoration of the Senate's dignity. — George Will

When we can commit a crime, we can also trigger debate. Cases go to courts. Media start covering the cases. But once you build smart environments where, if you meet a certain probabilistic profile, you won't even be allowed to board a bus, let alone commit a crime, we're perpetuating existing laws so they face no challenges or revision. — Evgeny Morozov

Love is an experiment ... what happens next is always surprising. — Jeanette Winterson

I believe that this world, as we know it, will come to an end ... This is not fanciful imagination but the clear and repeated testimony of the Bible. — Billy Graham

My wish for the American woman is that she may always be an elevating influence-man's inspiration. Let him go forth to duty while she weaves the spell which makes home a paradise to which he may return, ever welcome, whether he is victor or vanquished. — Rutherford B. Hayes

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. — George Bernard Shaw

Why were you smiling like that?" "Smiling like what?" "Like the cat that got into the cream pot. — Joanne Fluke

What a pitiable thing it is that our civilization can do no better for us than to make us slaves to indoor life, so that we have to go and take artificial exercise in order to preserve our health. — George Wharton James

People die all the time. It's just that you're not around. — Billy Connolly