"If we are true to Canada, if we do not desire to become part and parcel of these people, we cannot overlook this the greatest revolution of our times. Let us remember this, that when the three cries among our next neighbours are money, taxation, blood, it is time for us to provide for our own security."

-- Thomas D'Arcy McGee

#Blood Quotes #People Quotes #Desire Quotes

“I carry McCormickâ€™s Pure Vanilla [in my purse]â€”the baking kindâ€”and dab it on my neckâ€¦ Men are attracted to the scent! One time, I put it on and four different guys were like, â€˜You smell amazing!â€™”
“Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.”
“Don't market yourself. Editors and readers don't know what they want until they see it. Scratch what itches. Write what you need to write, feed the hunger for meaning in your life. Play at the serious questions of life and death.”
“Late night is no different than making a film, really, except that it's faster, and if you do a crap one, you can do a better one tomorrow. Writing a novel and doing stand-up - that stuff is very similar.”
“[...] Ich bin kein anhÃ¤nger der Behauptung, daÃŸ Maschinen kreativ seien. Jederman, der dies sein sollte, muÃŸ jedoch beschreiben, woher die Intuition der Maschinen fÃ¼r eine Kreation kommt. Ich vermute, daÃŸ Zufallsgeneratoren dabei eine wichtige Rolle spielen mÃ¼ssen.”
“Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.”

Source : Nelson Goodman (2012). “The Structure of Appearance”, p.1, Springer Science & Business Media
“The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism, Dynamic Double-Dog Realism, Ishkabibbleism, and Mama, which is like Dada only nicer.”

Source : Daniel Pinkwater (2012). “Bushman Lives!”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Things like Facebook have made you feel as though you're connected to everybody. You've got a thousand friends on Facebook, but you don't actually talk to anybody. You're not close to anybody.”

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