That’s the way we’re going nowadays. Everything slick and streamlined, everything made out of something else.
John Lanchester – “Capital”
Middle-class mediocricity.
Suburban mediocricity.
A culture that openly worships the average.
A society that allows the idea of the elite to exist only in relation to sport.
A culture of fat people who aren’t interested in anything except celebrity, people who wat in the street, people who betray their ordinariness every time they open their mouths.
John Lanchester – “The Capital”
Shahid’s view: anybody who had to wear a suit to work died a little inside every day.
Dan Brown – "Angels and Demons"
We have never created a weapon we have not used.
James Joyce – "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
Time is, time was, but time shall never be no more.
Wilcox
People want to go where they want to be led.
William Shakespeare – "Julius Caesar" / Brutus
… for he loves to hear
That unicorns may be betrayed with trees,
And bears with glasses, elephants with holes,
Lions with toils, and men with flatterers;
But when I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered.
William Shakespeare – "Hamlet"
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.”
William Shakepeare – "Hamlet"
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice.
William Shakespeare – "Hamlet"
Frailty, thy name is woman.