Tropiques Quotes & Sayings

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. — Saul Bellow

be it peace or happiness
let it enfold you — Charles Bukowski

I suffer the anthropological malady diagnosed by Le vi- Strauss inTristes tropiques: I find it much more difficult to suspend value judgments about the society in which I normally reside than I do abroad. It takes physical and cultural distance to gain moral detachment and political noncommitment. Relativism implies a solid measure of indifference. — Pierre L. Van Den Berghe

You know the oxygen masks on airplanes? I don't think there's really any oxygen. I think they're just to muffle the screams. — Rita Rudner

You mustn't look at a film with only one point of view. — Jafar Panahi

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs. — Desmond Morris

For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception. — Bernard Katz

You could move.'
"Dear Abby" responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood. — Abigail Van Buren

DO YOU!!! YOU DESERVE IT, DONT DIE WITH IT UNDONE — Robert Earl

We are here to learn and to make our dreams realized. — Kai Greene

I concentrate, more than I think virtually any comic book artist has in the past, on the so-called mundane details of every day life - quotidian life. What happens to a person during a working day, marital relations, and stuff like that. — Harvey Pekar

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes. — Bonnie Raitt

Italy will always have the best food. — Diane Von Furstenberg

Learn with Alex and Anna are charming every-day life stories for children. — Peter Hayward

Nature has a way of taking care of things. If you have a certain figure you'll go back to it. Breast feed and don't worry about it. — Eva Herzigova