"If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions."

-- John Lydon

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Competition Quotes

“A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.”
“I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?”
“Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.”

Source : "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.
“All these people who think they deserve free health care, or a job, or a plasma screen TV, simply because they radiate heat at 98.6 degrees, or because they were born in a certain place, or because they have a certain skin color - it's all bunk. There's no such thing as a 'just' wage. There's only what you earn.”

Source : "Doug Casey on Judging Justices". Interview with Louis James, www.caseyresearch.com. July 22, 2009.
“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?”
“Suffering is there because there's something we're not understanding about our full divinity, and there are so many ways we could go into understanding.”
“Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are...”
“Hopefully you marry someone who you not only love, but who you like as well.”

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