Solmania Quotes & Sayings

The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal to accept exploitation as either inevitable or just constitute the continuing antinomy of the modern era, joined together in a dialectic which has far from reached its climax in the twentieth century. — Immanuel Wallerstein

Consider the implications. We think we know what we want, but we can never really know until we've got it. And sometimes when we have, we discover we never really wanted it in the first place - but then it's too late — Alexandra Potter

The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices. — Michel De Certeau

In the chain of events, it is arbitrary to be sentimental about the passing of any one link. — Johnny Rich

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world. — Susan Sontag

She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything
maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all. — John Irving

If your thoughts are thoughts that draw low-frequency energy current to you, your physical and emotional attitudes will deteriorate, and emotional or physical disease will follow, whereas thoughts that draw high-frequency energy current to you create physical and emotional health. — Gary Zukav

That's great. Except for the fact that it's completely unimportant. — Rick Riordan

Some comics are in it for what they can get out of it. Others are in it for a love of comedy. I think those that are in it for a genuine love of comedy find each other within the circuit and become friends. — Johnny Vegas

A soprano in Massenet's Don Quixote complained that she had missed her entry in the aria, "because Mr. Challiapin always dies too soon." "Madam, you must be profoundly in error," said Sir Thomas, "No operatic star has yet died half soon enough for me." — Thomas Beecham

For me, if Shakespeare was around today, he'd be writing screenplays - a big Hollywood movie. — Douglas Booth

A man's death is not a calf's, and the dreaded Hereafter may still be open to me. — Bram Stoker

Cynics fooled themselves into thinking they had sussed out the worst-case scenarios and were invariably surprised by how life trumped them. Dreamers were often disappointed - but seldom in themselves. — Laura Lippman