Culture Religion famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The advertising man is a liaison between the products of business and the mind of the nation. He must know both before he can serve either.

  • Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.

  • But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It's already then.

  • They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They've got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they're restless They need somewhere to go As Lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row.

  • I was worried that I, the artist Morimura, would have conflicts with the participating artists and develop a strenuous relationship with them. But the actual experience was completely the opposite. The artists accepted my requests rather positively, because it came from a fellow artist. I strongly feel that the fact that my being an artist avoided the usual curator vs artist tension, and led to creating a positive atmosphere as well as developing a solidarity amongst artists and building a community for artists.

  • We put a gender lens on our whole value chain.

  • I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.

  • An encounter with god or with the transcendent, per se, can only occur when we experience the violent side of god.

  • Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild.

  • When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.