Bernice Fitz-gibbon Quotes

#1. I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

Dennis Farina

#2. I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.

Bella Abzug

#3. If you enjoy sex or explore aspects of your sexual identity using technology, that experience should belong to you. Only you should get to decide whether it was a good or bad thing to do.

Violet Blue

#4. What you teach is the word of man. Man is holy, and the true god, the living god, is man himself. You will have no gods but yourselves; the days in which you believed in other gods end now, they end forever.

Philip K. Dick

#5. But when people are past a certain age, you sort of stop asking them why they do things. It feels dangerous.

Robin Sloan

#6. I feel that my chess strengths are still here, .. I believe I can still improve.

Garry Kasparov

#7. As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

James Hillman

#9. Hitherto, no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; for 'independent creation,' as it is often termed, or the direct intervention of the Supreme Cause, must simply be considered as an avowal that we deem the question to lie beyond the domain of science.

Charles Lyell

#10. We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

B.B. King

#11. Thank you, your Holiness. Awesome speech.

George W. Bush

#12. It's smart to be thrifty.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#13. A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#14. Open-handed generosity and caring for the poor and marginalized as if we were caring for Jesus himself are extensions of our worship.

C. Christopher Smith

#15. Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#16. You break my sleep
And something like my heart.

Ruth Padel

#17. Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#18. It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.

Bill Watterson

#19. Of course advertising creates wants. Of course it makes people discontented, dissatisfied. Satisfaction with things as they are would defeat the American Dream.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#20. To be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#21. Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores, they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks ... all lovely and loose and jingly.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#22. Deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#23. Love is different from most things. If I gave my piece of chalk to someone, then I wouldn't have it anymore. But when I give my love to someone, I end up with more love than I started with. The more love you give away, the more you have left.

Louis Sachar

#24. Advertising prods people into wanting more and better things. Of course advertising makes people dissatisfied with what they have - makes them raise their sights. Mighty good thing it does. Nothing could be worse for the United States than 200,000,000 satisfied Americans.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon