Plunkett And Macleane Quotes & Sayings

Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man. — W. Somerset Maugham

The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree — Anchee Min

You know,' he said, the condition of sourness--or monstrousness, as you might call it--doesn't have to be permanent.'

P189 — Veronica Roth

Michael Heseltine, a wild-haired visionary, Klaus Kinski to Margaret's Thatcher's Werner Herzog, pushed Docklands across the Thames to the East Greenwich Peninsula. The Millennium Dome concept was a remake of 'Fitzcarraldo', a film in which suborned natives (expendable extras) drag a paddle steamer over a hill in order to force a short cut to more exploitable territory. The point being to bring Enrico Caruso, one of the gods of opera, to an upstream trading post. An insane achievement mirrored in the rebranding of the Dome, after its long and expensive limbo, as the O2 Arena, a popular showcase for cryogenic rock acts:Norma Desmond divas and the resurrected Michael Jackson, whose virtual rebirth,post-mortem, gave the shabby tent the status of a riverside cathedral. — Iain Sinclair

In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects. — Theodor W. Adorno

Superman was created in the late 1930s, and humankind's idea of what the future would be was very different. — Gene Luen Yang

To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness. — Rumi

Like caterpillars our metamorphosis begins with what comes from our mouth. Caterpillars spin silk cocoons from the mouth. We speak life or death, success or failure. All transformation starts with what comes from our mouth. — Brandi L. Bates

Riot is the language of the unheard. — Martin Luther King Jr.