"The mass media causes sexual misdirection: It prompts us to need something deeper than what we want. This is why Woody Allen has made nebbish guys cool; he makes people assume there is something profound about having a relationship based on witty conversation and intellectual discourse. There isn't. It's just another gimmick, and it's no different than wanting to be with someone because they're thin or rich or the former lead singer of Whiskeytown."

-- Chuck Klosterman

#Witty Quotes #Media Quotes #People Quotes

“We're gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guests and show all these old '50's B movies. Not the real corny ones, the real cool ones.”
“The gospel is not just the illustration (even the best illustration) of an idea. It is the story of actions by which the human situation is irreversibly changed.”

Source : Lesslie Newbigin (1989). “The Gospel in a Pluralist Society”, Eerdmans Publishing Company
“When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”
“The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.”
“If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.”
“Parental anxieties: A timeline. Pre-1800s: Potato famine, death of entire villages. 1900s: Trying to keep dad's job through depression so entire family does not starve or have to sell off children to agribusiness. 2000: Infringement of Parenthood on sense of Personhood.”
“There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.”

Source : William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

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