Commodified Culture Quotes

#1. There had to be something else out there that would help me change. I wanted to live.

John Sweeney

#2. I'm like the monster that hides under your bed, waiting till the moment your breath evens out, and your eyes close to attack.

J.L. Beck

#3. Oh, for God's sake ... get a life, will you?

William Shatner

#4. I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Jane Austen

#5. I always like being able to do something I haven't done before.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

#6. A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.

Harold Prince

#7. She tugged him down in a way that said for him to get on with pleasuring her because he was dead meat if he didn't.

Terry Spear

#8. French, for example, is declining as an international language, but Spanish, Mandarin and Arabic are all languages of the future. Ethnic minority groups in the UK may well prove to be a major asset in this effort.

David Graddol

#9. The chaos of their voices registers as a single, overwhelming force cutting off her ability to reason, and all she wants is to get as far away from people as possible.

Zainab Omaki

#10. Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.

Paula Scher

#11. I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen and Alice Walker.

Hillary Clinton

#12. It is easier to die bravely than to live so.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#13. He glanced at the sheep photograph and nodded to himself. In his present state it did not seem strange to him that the police were apprehending sheep.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#14. He tasted of sweet liquor and every delicious dark dream she'd ever had.

Elise Kova

#15. You're just a figment of my imagination. A fantasy?"
"Yes." He didn't dare move.
"Then why are you still wearing clothes?

Mina Khan