"When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which."

-- Yip Harburg

#Rich Quotes #Poor Quotes #Idle Quotes

“I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.”

Source : "Saga and Y: The Last Man writer Brian K. Vaughan talks about making comics his own way". Interview with Oliver Sava, www.avclub.com. April 11, 2012.
“I know Vikings isnt really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.”
“Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One.”
“But it is much later in the game now, and ignorance of the score is inexcusable. To be unaware that a technology comes equipped with a program for social change, to maintain that technology is neutral, to make the assumption that technology is always a friend to culture is, at this late hour, stupidity plain and simple.”
“I'm often asked: Did you get what you wanted? But how should I know what I wanted? A photo is an encounter, a surprise.”
“Each training session I'm getting better and better. I have no other duties now, no worries, it's all about training, eating and sleeping. I have a lot more time and can put a lot more effort into training. I'm feeling better every day. As long as I'm feeling myself I'm definitely in no doubt I can go to the Olympics and win.”

Source : "Usain Bolt: 'Legends have come before me, but this is my time'" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2012.
“The reaction to death is sometimes as violent as death itself. Shock throws a cautious coolness over your senses, but your stomach still has knots, your skin stings as if the Reaper is glaring at you as well.”

Source : Tim Lebbon (2003). “Fears Unnamed”
“Like propaganda generally, advertising must thus pervade the atmosphere; for it wants, paradoxically, to startle its beholders without really being noticed by them. Its aim is to jolt us, not "into thinking," as in a Brechtian formulation, but specifically away from thought, into quasiautomatic action: "To us," as an executive at Coca-Cola puts it, "communication is message assimilation--the respondent must be shown to behave in some way that proves they [sic] have come to accept the message, not merely to have received it.”

Source : Mark Crispin Miller (1988). “Boxed in: The Culture of TV”, p.11, Northwestern University Press

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