"The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend."

-- Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#Inexplicable Quotes #Please Quotes

“A danger sign that fellow-obsessionals will at once recognize is the tendency to regard the happiest moments of your life as those that occur when someone who has an appointment to see you is prevented from coming.”
“I advise treating the studio audience like a nightclub audience because that's the reason you're doing television - to get them to come see you in a nightclub.”

Source : Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”
“As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite happily change genres mid-song.”
“Philosophy is not to think deep, but simply speak life's basics that arise, aware and awaken people who are knowingly or unknowingly in the state of sleep.”
“I believe in white supremacy, until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don't believe giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people ... I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from [the Native Americans] ... Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”
“Man is the inventor of stupidity.”
“We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.”

Source : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.36, Library of Alexandria
“I'm concerned with China growing at double or triple the rate of the West, that there will be tensions. One needs to do something to start addressing misunderstandings and frustration.”

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