"Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising."

-- Edward Abbey

#Fashion Quotes #Communication Quotes #Nerves Quotes

“We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded by falsehoods and lies. It's hard for the thinking person to believe in narratives. And yet we want some place to invest our belief.”
“Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.”
“Screen work always boils down to that moment between the camera and the actor or the actors. It always boils down to that, ultimately. You serve the camera.”
“You've just got to go out there and try to control the things you can control. Deal with things and stay mentally strong.”
“There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.”

Source : Song: Dirty No-Gooder's Blues
“The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.”
“The objective of education is learning, not teaching”

Source : Russell L. Ackoff, Daniel Greenberg (2008). “Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track”, p.5, Pearson Prentice Hall
“I said that the only way I could have a band that would work in the format of my show is if the band were crap. So if I have a band they'd have to really suck.”

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