Muscle Man Diagram Quotes & Sayings

Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia, and I feel it's good to be aware of the politics of these genres. — Neel Mukherjee

If I amount to anything it'll be as part of a band. That's it. I'll be playing dive bars and shitty clubs, and I'll get high in the alleys and do lines in the bathrooms, and eventually I'll OD and that'll be that." I glance ad her. "Is that the life you want? — Jasinda Wilder

Children are simultaneously required to constitute themselves as autonomous subjects, responsible, free and conscious, and to constitute themselves as submissive, inert, obedient, conforming objects. — Jean Baudrillard

The first step in battling the illusion of control is to be aware of if. But even then it is difficult, once we think we see a pattern, we do not easily let go of our perception. — Leonard Mlodinow

Design isn't always about the final result. It's also about the process, who created it and why. — Anonymous

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves ... — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know. — Robert Green Ingersoll

It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can. — Alfred Harmsworth

If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been. — Dave Barry

I have this ideal listener, as John Cage did. This listener doesn't bring expectations that my music will fit into some part of music history, or that it will do any particular thing. This listener is just open to listening. — Missy Mazzoli

The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent. — Che Guevara

People are willing to trade money for something that they can touch, not ones and zereos. — John Gruber

The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome. — Derek Walcott

Eisenhower on LBJ: He hadn't got the depth of mind nor the breath vision to carry great responsibility. — David Pietrusza