Sitterle Garden Quotes & Sayings

This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not really clear in the end whether this 'cool' smile is the smile of humour or that of commercial complicity. This is also the case with pop, and its smile ultimately encapsulates all its ambiguity: it is not the smile of critical distance, but the smile of collusion — Jean Baudrillard

The schizophrenic in the sleeping bag with a live chicken and a can of tomato soup spilling onto the sidewalk had no right to steal my street performance. — Jarod Kintz

There are few who are worthy to understand what I feel. [...] I seek out those who are of this chosen few, and I avoid the rest. — Marcel Proust

As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort. — John Caudwell

Of all the studies by which men acquire citizenship of the intellectual commonwealth, no single one is so indispensable as the study of the past. — Bertrand Russell

I take it you don't believe in love at first sight." "Does anyone over the age of thirteen? Do you?" "I don't, no," Darcy said. "But I don't rule out for others what I haven't experienced firsthand. — Curtis Sittenfeld

Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden. — Ford Madox Ford

I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are blobjects. — Scott Westerfeld

I've been in New York only a few days and I have learned only two words of your language: one is Swell, and the other is Lousy ... 'It's swell to be with you and excuse, please, my lousy English! — Vicki Baum