"If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was - and is - home plate."

-- Brock Yates

#Wall Quotes #Communication Quotes #Home Quotes

“In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.”
“It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?”

Source : "Peter Doig: the outsider comes home". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2012.
“Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.”
“I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.”
“There is a point, of course, where a man must take the isolated peak and break with all his associates for clear principle; but until that time comes he must work, if he would be of use, with men as they are. As long as the good in them overbalances the evil, let him work with them for the best that can be obtained.”
“If you have good wealth mentality.... you will generate wealth wherever you go. Even if you lose money temporarily, your wealth mentality will attract it again. If you have a lack mentality, no matter how much you receive or what financial opportunities come your way, wealth will evade you or, if it comes, it won't last.”
“The psychological pain--and the ethical shame--of American poverty are made greater by the fact that this country possesses the wealth and the energy to raise all children to a minimally decent standard of living.”

Source : Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
“A woman at the rear of the room raised her hand. I was focused on the argument now and made a minor social error, which I quickly corrected. "The fat woman-overweight woman-at the back?"”

Source : Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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