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“People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound. They're like, 'It was the worst day of my life. We didn't board for 20 minutes and they made us sit there on the runway for 40 minutes.' Oh really? What happened next? Did you fly in the air, incredibly, like a bird? Did you partake in the miracle of human flight you non-contributing zero?'”
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“Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.”
Source : Dave Hickey (2012). “The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded”, p.91, University of Chicago Press
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“Rules, after all, are only made so you can work around them”
Source : Chetan Bhagat (2009). “2 States: The Story of My Marriage”, p.153, Sandesh S
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“Like Karl Kraus, [Wittgenstein] was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby mostly offended his ear particularly when they happened to speak philosophically; and like Karl Kraus, he suspected that the institutions could not but be corrupt if the idiom of the race was confused, presumptuous, and vacuous, a fabric of nonsense, untruth, deception, and self-deception.”
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“Nothing is more abhorrent to me than sugary-sweet photography full of pretense, poses, and gimmickry. For this reason, I have allowed myself to tell the truth about our times and people in a sincere manner.”
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“I've always been into powder, that's what I like riding, and now you've got to go farther to get it.”
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“The fact is, we are not islands and we are far more connected than we know”
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“I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner.”
Source : Dorothy Wordsworth, Alan G. Hill (1981). “Letters of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Selection”, Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; Toronto : Oxford University Press
