"You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream."

-- Frank Zappa

#Beauty Quotes #Writing Quotes #Atheism Quotes

“Small price to pay for beauty.”

Source : "Fictional character: Butch Cassidy". "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", 1969.
“Sarah Palin is now the guy who hangs out in the high school parking lot, showing off his car, five years after he graduated.”
“The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain: great friends, good food, and a decent bottle of wine.”
“Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given.”

Source : "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, "Foreword", 1971.
“In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work”
“History is a continuum, it's not these separate moments. That's how we look at it. In the 1700s in Virginia before there were police officers - there were these groups of men who would wander the countryside - and if they saw a black man or a black woman they would presume that that black man or woman was a slave. If you didn't have the kind of pass that you were supposed to have, then you could be whipped, you could be enslaved, you could be taken into custody - even if you were free. And as I'm reading this I find myself thinking, "How is this any different from stop-and-frisk?"”
“Why are you doing this to me? What kind of country did I save in my previous life?”
“The years 1781 to 1793 are crucial for many reasons, but chiefly because they pose in an especially clear way the main problem of German philosophy for the next century. This is the old conflict between reason and faith which recurred during the pantheism controversy between Jacobi and Mendelssohn.”

Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

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