Precedential Define Quotes & Sayings

We both love sushi and hate Star Wars. — Alessandra Torre

The distinguishing feature of advanced industrial society is its effective suffocation of those needs which demand liberation - liberation also from that which is tolerable and rewarding and comfortable - while it sustains and absolves the destructive power and repressive function of the affluent society. Here, the social controls exact the overwhelming need for the production and consumption of waste; the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity; the need for modes of relaxation which soothe and prolong this stupefication; the need for maintaining such deceptive liberties as free competition at administered prices, a free press which censors itself, free choice between brands and gadgets. — Herbert Marcuse

Love versus love. King, you're comparing infinities. There is no 'more.' That's not how love works. If it's love, it's infinite. You can't count it. — Tiffany Reisz

Respondents had been so overwhelmed by their in-box they'd declared e-mail bankruptcy. — Susan Maushart

'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success. — Rachel Joyce

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty. — Jeremy Collier

How do we ensure our design solutions are meaningful? The short answer: By providing a solution that embraces both the business needs of the client and the needs of the audience. — David Holston

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past. — Umberto Eco

The US isn't a perfect model of the world, — Randall Munroe

Conversations in the flesh are the first drafts toward the later conversations of the mind, where words and ideas are sorted and elaborated, recast. — Keith Miller

This is the problem with pussy: When you want it you can't get it, and when you don't want it, you get it and then you can't get it out of your fucking head. — K. Bromberg

I'm not overweight. I flucuate between chubby and curvy. — Mindy Kaling