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“Lord Maccon reflected upon the state of his life wherein he had somehow gained a spouse who could not give a pig's foot for the latest dresses out of Paris but who whined about not owning an aethographic transmitter. Well, at least the two were comparable obsessions so far as expense was concerned.”
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“More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.”
Source : Michel de Certeau, Pierre Mayol (1998). “The Practice of Everyday Life: Living and cooking. Volume 2”, p.134, U of Minnesota Press
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“. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up.”
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“I need ten thousand angels to walk me out the door.”
Source : Song: Ten Thousand Angels, Album: Ten Thousand Angels, 1996
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“Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.”
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“There must be some limit to the thing. It cannot go on to infinity.”
Source : Samuel Hahnemann (1893). “Organon of Medicine”
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“The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.”
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“Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.”
