"The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles."

-- C. Wright Mills

#Way Quotes #Entertainment Quotes #Distraction Quotes

“Wild dogs? Or just Clayton? -Nick Sorrentino (Bitten)”
“A number of people have written poems about Trump already, and I salute them. He is so beyond anything we could have imagined and yet, in another way, he has to be seen as a mirror of America. Our country wouldn't have elected him if he didn't reflect something in our country. In my view, it's a negative thing that's being reflected.”
“A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.”
“Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals and "savage" people. To us it was tame. Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery. Not until the hairy man from the east came and with brutal frenzy heaped injustices upon us and the families that we loved was it "wild" for us. When the very animals of the forest began fleeing from his approach, then it was that for us the "Wild West" began.”

Source : Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.38, U of Nebraska Press
“Good rom-coms have some reflection of the way things are, the sign of the times.”
“From the beginning, what I was connecting with in the gym was a universal energy source. I would just feel it flowing. Even when I was twenty years old, I called the gym my church. When I was there, it wasn't about being social; it was about doing my practice. I was in it. I was in the zone.”
“The unknown is just as real as the known and must be made to look so.”
“The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.”

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