Commoditised Quotes

#1. Femininity itself has become a brand, a narrow and shrinking formula of commoditised identity which can be sold back to women who have become alienated from their own power as living, loving, labouring beings.

Laurie Penny

#2. A lot of our happiness is derived from experiences, not from buying products. People are twice as happy buying experiences as products. People are happy buying experiences. They don't want something that's commoditised.

Ruzwana Bashir

#3. Our worst can become our best if mistakes are gathered like twigs of a bird's nest, giving one true foundation, a spiritual home to build their life upon.

Ace Antonio Hall

#4. You Bet Your Life's sponsor, Chrysler, was convinced only a Commie would dare promote racial equality.

Kliph Nesteroff

#5. I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of two apartments in one day and I told the story to some friends, one of whom worked in the 'Village Voice' and asked me to turn it into an essay.

Sloane Crosley

#6. Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. No deal means a greater chance of more war in the Middle East ...

Barack Obama

#8. No living being is held by anything so strongly as its own needs.

Epictetus

#9. I get unreasonably nervous before talk shows.

Amanda Seyfried

#10. The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November.

Eliot Spitzer

#11. To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.

Herman Melville

#12. There's no one to stop you but yourself.

Dave Thomas

#13. Never have a limit to your dreams and plans. Life is a journey each and every moment. Live every moment to it's fullest.

Timothy Pina

#14. You're leaving, "she said, rising to her feet. "I knew it was coming."
"How?"
"I'm your mother. You're the breath of my lungs and the beat of my heart. I know you very well.

Lisa See