#Lying Quotes #Feet Quotes #Cities Quotes
“The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.”
“In truth, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close†isn't about Sept. 11. It's about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity and turn it into yet another wellspring of generic emotions: sadness, loneliness, happiness. This is how kitsch works. It exploits familiar images, be they puppies or babies - or, as in the case of this movie, the twin towers - and tries to make us feel good, even virtuous, simply about feeling. And, yes, you may cry, but when tears are milked as they are here, the truer response should be rage.”
“Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.”
Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.”
“The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.”
“I like being by myself.”
“I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you happy, and when you get tired of looking at me, I promise I’ll sing.”
“Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.”
Source : "On Not Leaving It to the Snake". Book by Harvey Cox, 1967.
David R. Brower Environmentalist
Gary Snyder Poet
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Wallace Stevens Poet
Walt Whitman Poet
William Carlos Williams Poet
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