"Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke."

-- Victoria Moran

#Distance Quotes #Shopping Quotes #Two Quotes

“Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.”

Source : Interview with Carla Marinucci, www.sfgate.com. October 9, 2005.
“To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things - and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.”
“How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it.”

Source : Louis Sullivan, Robert Twombly (1988). “The Public Papers”, p.88, University of Chicago Press
“Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.”

Source : Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited
“I say to my friends, 'Don't just listen to the vuvuzelas; look at who scores the goals.' And this is the important thing.”
“Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; If you seek them, they do not hide; If you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.”
“I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.”
“Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life”

Source : Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You may also like: