Sporcom Quotes & Sayings

If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions. — Billie Joe Armstrong

There's a floating distraction in the contemporary world, life at a distance enabled by technology. I want people to commit at the level of their subjectivity. The idea of subjective commitment is at the core of ethics, something that divides the self from itself. I become an ethical self. I cannot meet that ideal, I cannot fulfill it, it divides me from myself and it makes me strive harder. This ideal subjective ethical drive is at the heart of an absolutely earnest, radical politics that insists that people will be able to engage with each other, and they're lifted from irony at that point. — Simon Critchley

If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste. — Marc Andreessen

Clearing away the superficial structure of the reigns of emperors and the dates of battles, there was the deeper rhythm of history's ebb and flow not as the deeds of great men, but as the lives lived by ordinary men and women wading through the currents of the natural world around them: its geology, its seasons, its climate and ecology, the abundance and scarcity of the raw material for life. — Ken Liu

You could do a hundred projects and still not have the fans that are there for Twilight. — Kellan Lutz

Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading. — Thomas Carlyle

English stupidity is an organism so primitive that it is apparently impossible to kill off. It reminds me of Physarum Polycephalum, the gigantic slime mould recently bred by scientists at Bonn. Bright yellow and about two millimetres thick, this monocellular creature
neither plant nor animal
grew to a size of 10 square yards before the scientists took fright and froze it. It can smell its favourite food, and move towards it at a speed of up to two centimetres an hour. This favourite food is porridge. — Neal Ascherson

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker. — Kirsten Dunst

In gay culture hookups are a way of escaping your class. — Hank Azaria

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them. — Helen Rowland

The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children. That is, nothing [else] has ever come close. — Steven Spielberg