"This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts bring with it consequences; so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it. . . ."

-- Italo Calvino

#Zero Quotes #Moving Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Surrender, but don’t give yourself away.”

Source : "'Surrender' shows why Cheap Trick still rocks today" by Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. February 25, 2015.
“Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter.”
“It's really about committing super-hard to whatever you're trying to create. In essence, I'm just copying my favorite comedic actors, and it's the people who make me laugh the hardest who commit the hardest.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
“I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.”
“God, of thy goodness, give me Thyself; for Thou art enough for me, and I can ask for nothing less that can be full honor to Thee. And if I ask anything that is less, ever Shall I be in want, for only in Thee have I all.”
“In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.”

Source : Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult
“I'd go to hell to hear a good band.”
“My point, though, is that if lines have indeed shifted, it's not so much that the younger generation just doesn't care, it's that we have ceded more and more of our public life over to the private sector. If you grow up with advertising at school, you have come of age in a sold-out world.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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