"Overstated planning is the backbone of understated elegance."

“The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.”

“The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built from emotionally colored memories.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.112, Macmillan

“She soars on her own wings.”

“We don't have a studio, we don't have a radio station, we don't have anybody breathing down our necks to make a budget. We don't have any benchmarks that we have to hit. Our benchmarks are ones that we have set.”

“So how as a nation can we sit around and eat Mexican food, and drink beer and make friends? That's the question. If we can do that on a broader scale, I think we'll come out of it all right.”

“It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.”

Source : Alex Carey, Andrew Lohrey (1997). “Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty”, p.21, University of Illinois Press

“To restore silence is the role of objects.”

“Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery.”