Balkany Reference Quotes

#1. The Affluent Society not only changed the way the country viewed itself, but gave new phrases to the language: Conventional wisdom, the bland leading the bland, private opulence and public squalor.

Amartya Sen

#2. Matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move.

Albert Einstein

#3. You used to get it in your fishnets
Now you only get it in your nightdress
Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness ...
... Remeber when the boys were all electric?

Arctic Monkeys

#4. The system has already anticipated the freedom seeking mechanism in humans.

Bryant McGill

#5. Where have you come from boy?'
He looked at her again.
'From hell, to take you away in the night and eat you.

Paul Hoffman

#6. Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private.

Shawn Amos

#7. Urban transport is a political and not a technical issue. The technical aspects are very simple. The difficult decisions relate to who is going to benefit from the models adopted.

Enrique Penalosa

#8. I love mixing amateurs and professionals.

Lasse Hallstrom

#9. Man has been growing more stupid for several thousand years; I myself shall waste no tears at his demise.

George R. Stewart

#10. I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me.

Stephen Greenblatt