#Love Life Quotes #Creativity Quotes #Celebration Quotes
“A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity. It addresses somebody,that is, creates in the mind of that person an equivalent sign, or perhaps a more developed sign. That sign which it creates I call the interpretant of the first sign. The sign stands for something, its object. It stands for that object, not in all respects, but in reference to a sort of idea, which I have sometimes called the ground of the representamen.”
“Football represents and embodies everything that's great about this country, because the United States of America is built on winners, not losers or people who didn't bother to play.”
“It has been obvious all along, to anyone paying attention, that the politicians shouting loudest about deficits are actually using deficit hysteria as a cover story for their real agenda, which is top-down class warfare. To put it in Romneyesque terms, it's all about finding an excuse to slash programs that help people who like to watch Nascar events, even while lavishing tax cuts on people who like to own Nascar teams.”
“Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?”
Source : "An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey". Book by Richard Brautigan, p.15, 2000.
“In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.”
“Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.”
“I used to kiss things all the time. I would have to kiss everything, just about everything. The headboard on my bed, the steering wheel in my car. I think it was an OCD thing.”
“I dated the same girl all through high school.”
Anna Halprin Dancer
Frederick Salomon Perls Psychiatrist
Jed Diamond Columnist
Paul Goodman Novelist
Sheldon B. Kopp Author
