"From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a container already built for us to fit inside: A social security number, a gender, a race, a profession or an I.Q. I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in, rather than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?Â Would we still be able to exist if we were authentically un-contained?"

-- Paige Bradley

#Numbers Quotes #Race Quotes #World Quotes

“Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.”
“I weighed the pros and cons of both, and college outweighed the pro ranks at the time and I'm definitely glad I made the choice to come to Oregon State because I'm a better player for it.”
“Imagine yourself as a wife, and you have to look at a brain-injured husband for the rest of your life, and he can't talk to you. But we're paying for this. That's the easy part, money payment. But how do you pay for the misery? So if we can, we should be able to avoid war.”

Source : Source: www.achievement.org
“If I give you my idea and you give me yours, then we each have two ideas, and together we have four.”
“I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.”
“Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any rational order of things. Reign of matter, of gold, of machine, of number, it no longer possesses breath, or liberty, or light.”
“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”
“I don't want to be cool. I want to be fashion!”

Source : "Anna Dello Russo interview: Fashion gone rogue" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2010.

You may also like:

Fernando Pessoa
Poet
Richard MacDonald
Artist