"Professional footballers - those virile young stags of our modern culture - are near perpetual fountains of sputum."

-- Frank Skinner

#Culture Quotes #Modern Quotes #Fountain Quotes

“You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.”
“Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.”
“We all do that thing which is the best in movies - we relate.”
“If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that they have got a fast-track path to Heaven, if they do the things that they believe God is telling them to do, and I dont just mean Islamic people. I mean Fundamentalist Christians.”
“Aesthetics is not an end in itself. But in our culture, which is becoming more multi-sensory and less respectful of God, we have a responsibility to pay attention to the design of the space where we assemble regularly. In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and Orthodox churches. Darkness communicates that something serious is happening.”
“Life expects us to make a reasonable amount of progress in a reasonable amount of time. That's why they make those second grade chairs so small.”
“I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.”
“How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning those around you as well, like trying to commit suicide with a gas oven and unwittingly murdering your neighbors.”

Source : Jonathan Ames (2015). “Wake Up, Sir!”, p.36, Pushkin Press

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