"The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night."

-- Jean Baudrillard

#Night Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Luxury Quotes

“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
“I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.”
“I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes.”
“In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.”

Source : William Lilly, Elias Ashmole (1822). “William Lilly's history of his life and times from the year 1602 to 1681”, p.21
“the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.”
“Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war)”
“Why is partying and having a good time bad?”

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