Materialist Persuasion Quotes & Sayings

it was going to be all right.
at last.
for a while. — Charles Bukowski

When life hands me lemons I...throw them back and demand JASPER HALE — A.R. Arias

You cannot comfort a man and kick him at the same time. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

It was the hour when gauze-winged insects are born that only live for a day. — Lord Dunsany

They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer. — Buddy Rich

It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one would perceive the path taken by the mind in order to put its dreams into a concrete form. But what is really very curious is to observe that fundamentally the picture does not change, that despite appearances the initial vision remains almost intact. — Pablo Picasso

Don't just go with the flow, dig in and you will find the truth. — Nadair Desmar

Interventionism depletes mental and economic resources; it is rarely available when it is needed the most. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better. — John Kricfalusi

How the now-ubiquitous humble shopping cart was invented and adopted eighty years ago. Sylvan Goldman, a grocery store owner from Oklahoma, noticed that when his customers' baskets became too heavy or too full, people stopped shopping. Clearly their problem was his problem, too. He began to think of ways to improve the experience for his customers. In 1936 he came up with the idea of a basket carrier on wheels. — Bernadette Jiwa