Pulviscular Cloud Quotes & Sayings

The best reason to go to the movies is to be with other people. Eating the popcorn, being with other people you don't know. — Peter Weller

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. — Peter Ustinov

Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful. — Luc De Clapiers

I pack every minute I can with something to do. — Bryan Adams

Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things. — Bear Bryant

I am persuaded that your people are foolish beyond any reasonable expectation. Not all of them. Obviously, there are many who are reasonable. Otherwise, you could never have reached this world. But the intelligence seems to be confined to a relatively few individuals. When your people come together as a group, they do not perform well. — Jack McDevitt

Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself. — Jerome K. Jerome

Little Life Lesson 51: When selecting a member of a group to put on the Endangered Species List, it's probably best not to pick the least popular person, because there is always a chance everyone will shrug and be like, "Um, okay. Hey, anyone want pizza?" and leave. — Michele Jaffe

Eternity is not much longer than life. — Rene Char

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death-- fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant." --Edna Ferber

"The great gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites. It gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination." --Elizabeth Hardwick — Cara Swann

You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change. — Francesca Annis

Beyond the veil of suffering is a light that shines bright in every one of us. One does not need glasses to see that light, just compassion. — Charles F. Glassman

1 )Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them.
2)A classic is a work which constantly generates a pulviscular cloud of critical discourse around it, but which always shakes the particles off. — Italo Calvino

Comcast rents modems directly to consumers, thereby competing directly with companies like Zoom. It has every reason to make Zoom modems more expensive or even to drive companies like Zoom out of business. — Bernie Sanders

The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer and simpler and to eliminate the harmful drag this tax has on the economy. — Kit Bond

The electoral victories of Thatcher (1979) and Reagan (1980) are often viewed as a distinctive rupture in the politics of the postwar period. I understand them more as consolidations of what was already under way throughout much of the 1970s. The crisis of 1973-5 was in part born out of a confrontation with the accumulated rigidities of government policies and practices built up during the Fordist-Keynesian period. Keynesian policies had appeared inflationary as entitlements grew and fiscal capacities stagnated. Since it had always been part of the Fordist political consensus that redistributions should be funded out of growth, slackening growth inevitably meant trouble for the welfare state and the social wage. — David Harvey