"Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities."

-- Jurgen Habermas

#Opportunity Quotes #Normal Quotes #Disruption Quotes

“Flying makes me feel like a sex maniac in a whorehouse with a stack of $20 bills.”
“It's hard to have your parents not happy with you.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people think they can get along perfectly well without metaphor. We have found, on the contrary, that metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.”

Source : George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (2008). “Metaphors We Live By”, p.3, University of Chicago Press
“Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.”

Source : Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and reflections”
“Swimming is one of the hardest sports.”
“There's a pianist out of Boston who made a beautiful record for the Fresh Sound label called 'Sketch Book'; his name is Vardan Ovsepian”

Source : "Brad Mehldau's Opening, Middle And Endgame". Interview with Mike Brannon, www.allaboutjazz.com. October 7, 2003.
“Every practice, every film session, every game will help our chemistry.”
“Fashion is a mysterious energy, a visual moment-impossible to predict where it goes,”

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