"The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in."

-- Yukio Mishima

#Abnormal Quotes #World Quotes #Daily Life Quotes

“There's this one photograph of guy I know named Simon. The way he's standing, the background, the way his tie's flipping in the wind-it looks good in the small version, but in the big version, he looks like some kind of Italian fashion superhero or something. Like if the fashion police couldn't handle it, they'd call Simon, wearing a big S on his chest for some kind of fashion superhero.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would learn about their very impressive contribution to their cities. There are nuanced senses that only people from the region can understand, and no amount of globalization can change that. It's almost like a maxim of a sorts, when you think about language, the way that people speak in a location. It does happen with architects, in terms of how they engage cities.”
“In the summer I wear shorts with a bright top and ankle boots or just sandals. I'll add a nice scarf, maybe a hat, some cool sunglasses. It's all about the accessories.”
“Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.”
“Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.”

Source : Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller”, p.115
“Life is not always good, which is why music exists.”
“I don't watch my movies. I just get too critical of myself.”
“Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.”

Source : "Gene Sharp: A dictator's worst nightmare". Interview with Mairi Mackay, www.cnn.com. June 25, 2012.

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