"The actual basis of colour is instability. Once you accept that in lieu of something which is stable, which is form, you are dealing with something which is unstable in its basic character, you begin to get a way of dealing with it."

-- Bridget Riley

#Character Quotes #Way Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/?" Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared accusingly at the clusters of young people scattered around his living room. That's /electrical/ engineering, Pop," his son told him loftily. "We're all mechanical engineers. Ask a mechanical engineer to fix your color TV, that's like asking an Ob-Gyn to look at the sore on your di-ow!" Oh, sorry," said his father, peering blandly over gold-rimmed glasses. "That your foot, Lenny?”
“The nation will continue to be a central pole of identification, even if more and more nations come to share common economic and political forms of organization.”

Source : Francis Fukuyama (2006). “The End of History and the Last Man”, p.244, Simon and Schuster
“What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.”
“I don't know and I don't care anymore. I was supposed to have my way for once, just once in my life. I did everything right and I got nothing for it. I want to kill them all. no, better yet, I want to die. No, even bettter than that: I want to kill them all then die.”
“Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power.”

Source : "People of God: The Struggle for World Catholicism". Book by Penny Lernoux, 1989.
“The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.”

Source : Robert Aris Willmott (1866). “Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature”, p.6
“Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.”
“The neighbourhood is a place of...intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street their tongues are like the two halves of a scissor coming together, cutting reputations and good names to shreds.”

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