Oooooh 2013 Quotes & Sayings

What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading! — James Boswell

One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of this tradition of problematic anti-elitism where the elites are always the liberal class - the intellectuals, the professors, the artists - and not the economic elites. Why are we so mad and aggrieved at newspaper editors but not at corporate executives? I think we need to look more at the latter, at economic elites. — Astra Taylor

The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird. — Julie Walters

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose. — Charles Eames

There was a yoga teacher in India in the twelfth century named Saraha, and he said (to loosely paraphrase him): "Those who believe in existence as solid are stupid. Those who believe that everything is empty are even more stupid." He was referring to any beliefs that limit our experience and cause us to be unable to perceive what's in front of our eyes and nose. Beliefs that we hold so strongly and so dearly that we're willing to fight for them, beliefs that blind us and make us deaf. — Pema Chodron

Technology adds nothing to art. — Penn Jillette

Children's play is a way to express innate, spontaneous creativity. — Iben Dissing Sandahl

Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow