"Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective."

-- Brian Eno

#Adjectives Quotes #Populist Quotes

“Gospel possession requires gospel proclamation.”
“Faithful continued prayer is one key to answered prayer. As James expresses it, "You do not have, because you do not ask God" (James 4:2).”
“Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked.”

Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.143, Penguin
“What the young writer is looking for is not a critic who will slap him on the back and say, 'Greatest thing since O. Henry,' but rather the one who will toss the manuscript down in disgust, with 'You know better than that! It's rotten! Do it all over again!'”
“All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.”

Source : Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.52, Mondial
“The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.”
“[Mullah Omar] gave himself this religious title. So it was something that all those people there who swore an oath of loyalty to him as a religious leader could not easily get rid of.”
“I still do miss the freedom to play any kind of character I wanted to play.”

Source : "The Kids In The Hall, part 1". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2004.

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