"There's only one honest way to measure affluence; that's by comparing the capability of producing goods and services with the desire of people to enjoy them. It's a lousy, crooked trick to compare this society with China or some such place and then say we're affluent. It's a piece of intellectual crookery even to compare this economy with itself ten or twenty years ago. We should compare what we have with what we could have."

-- Louis O. Kelso

#Years Quotes #People Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“Doing actual comedic material is just about the most joyful endeavor ever. That's the truth. The only time it's not funny is when business gets in the way.”

Source : "Brad Hall and Julia Louis-Dreyfus Picture Paris". Interview with Cynthia Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.
“I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.”

Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.
“The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.”

Source : Voyage in the Dark (1934) ch. 4, pt. 1
“The expenses of government, having for their object the interest of all, should be borne by everyone, and the more a man enjoys the advantages of society, the more he ought to hold himself honored in contributing to those expenses.”
“I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.”
“The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.”

Source : "'Gnomeo and Juliet' director Kelly Asbury" by Michael Ordoña, www.sfgate.com. February 6, 2011.
“The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.”

Source : Slavoj Žižek (2001). “Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?”, Verso Books
“I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural. It is, but there are a lot of times where people treat it like a sport - there are tricks you can pull, different combinations that make something better. I don't really think I approach it that way, but I definitely have a love for the science that is pop song writing.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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