"I hadnâ€™t seen any novel make the statement that entering the workforce was like entering the grave. That from then on, nothing happens and you have to pretend to be interested in your work. And, furthermore, that some people have a sex life and others donâ€™t just because some are more attractive than others. I wanted to acknowledge that if people donâ€™t have a sex life, itâ€™s not for some moral reason, itâ€™s just because theyâ€™re ugly. Once youâ€™ve said it, it sounds obvious, but I wanted to say it."

-- Michel Houellebecq

#Sex Quotes #People Quotes #Entering Quotes

“Membership of an organisation is good, as long as you can make yourself heard.”

Source : "Interview with Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad". Interview with Sue Onslow, commonwealth-oral-history-project.blogs.sas.ac.uk. February 11, 2015.
“It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.”

Source : M. Russell Ballard (2001). “When Thou Art Converted: Continuing Our Search for Happiness”, Deseret Book Company
“Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space.”

Source : Nicholas Murray Butler (1895). “What Knowledge is of Most Worth? ...”
“Los Angeles made me less interested in making my images move. Everything is evolving and regressing. It can be hard to pinpoint which changes are linked to place. I believe California has made me more polite. I get a little surprised when I rediscover how direct and rude Norwegians can be.”
“We got great ratings and fan interest, and that's what management wanted.”
“What stands most explicitly as critique in Nietzsche's late work in not a development from earlier interests but a return to two problems of enduring personal involvement for him, those of Wagner and of Christianity. Der Antichrist , to take one case, is not a response to a resuscitating public interest in Christian religion; it is primarily a renewed attempt to resolve for himself the question of piety.”
“There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart.”
“The language of gardening fuels the senses: talk with your hands, observe with your ears and listen with your eyes.”

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