Bureaucratized Quotes

#1. [Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of a man who cannot obtain a promised job ... into myth, into epic, into a kind of beauty never before seen.

Milan Kundera

#2. You'll never do anything creative, innovative or world changing if you fear criticism. Pioneers are easy targets for arrows!

Rick Warren

#3. I was a tourist in a bizarre land. I was home.

Rabih Alameddine

#4. I like to work with multiple sections because they lend themselves to the structure of the poem: its intensifications and arcs and closures. I feel like working with smaller units feels more natural to the way I write poems.

Anna Journey

#5. Push until you can push no more, and then, push some more.

Kevin Abdulrahman

#6. The music industry was invented, like, 100 years ago. I'm talking about the goddess Matangi, who invented music 5,000 years ago. She was the only thing that inspired me.

M.I.A.

#7. In an emergency, save the scientists.

Jeff VanderMeer

#8. But, once in a while, people enter your life that you love - not for what they give you - but for what they are. The beauty you see in them is a reflection of the Creator, so you love them. Now suddenly it isn't about what you're getting, but rather what you can give. This is unselfish love.

Yasmin Mogahed

#9. Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves

Martin Heidegger

#10. You definitely meet a lot of extremely powerful, successful, wealthy people in Hollywood who are extremely miserable.

Diablo Cody

#11. Oh,yes," he uttered hoarsely,savagely."There it is.The walls of your pussy...Shit,it's like an earthquake. Come for me,baby."

~Gray Donohue

Laura Wright

#12. The vocabulary for discussing smells, tastes and textures, the primary characteristics of wine, seems paltry compared with the far better developed lexicon for sights and sounds.

Anonymous

#13. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#14. Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again.

Gianni Agnelli