Slinch To Pounds Quotes & Sayings

A human being, appearances to the contrary, doesn't create his own purposes. These are imposed by the time he's born into; he may serve them, he may rebel against them, but the object of his service or rebellion comes from the outside. To experience complete freedom in seeking his purposes he would have to be alone, and that's impossible, since a person who isn't brought up among people cannot become a person. — Stanislaw Lem

Everything that would be said against the Eixample's heirs, from Le Corbusier's 'ville radieuse' to Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia, was already said, with far less justice, about the Eixample itself. And all its critics concurred that the basic mistake was to have left the planning of a city in the hands of a socialist. — Robert Hughes

I don't have to work just to work anymore. More interesting parts come my way, so I can afford to say, 'I don't want to make that.' — Diane Kruger

You know you wouldn't be happy unless you married an odd sort of person — Vera Brittain

The spectacle that falsifies reality is nevertheless a real product of that reality. Conversely, real life is materially invaded by the contemplation of the spectacle, and ends up absorbing it and aligning itself with it. Objective reality is present on both sides. — Anonymous

If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water. — Herman Melville

What do people want? Well, you really can't talk about wants until you talk about needs. — Kate Klise

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged. — Dennis Rodman

In addition to comedy, I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good. — Wendy Liebman

By surrendering my life to the revolution, I found eternal life — Huey Newton

I simply constructed a project to try to snap Kurt [Cobain] out of a frame of mind. I sent him a plane ticket and a driver, and he tacked the plane ticket to the wall in the bedroom and the driver sat outside the house for 10 hours. Kurt wouldn't come out and wouldn't answer the phone. — Michael Stipe