Fetishist's Quotes

#1. Perhaps we can conceive of the ironist as the fetishist's apprentice, reaching out for all readers, ensnaring them in a tangle of ambiguity, uncertainty and indecision from which there is no escape. Irony, quite possibly, makes fetishists of us all.

Janet Beizer

#2. To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.

Willis Polk

#3. However, in fetishism the desired object is displaced; and in this context ("The Apparition" by Guy De Maupassant) it is the desiring object, so to speak. In other words, have we ever seen a boot in love with a fetishist?

Philippe Lejeune

#4. If I could put it into a very few words, dear sir, I should say that our prevalent belief is in moderation. We inculcate the virtue of avoiding excesses of all kinds - even including, if you will pardon the paradox, excess of virtue itself.

James Hilton

#5. It is a central characteristic of the American political system that a wheelbarrow fetishist could be mayor of Omaha.

Charles L. Mee Jr.

#6. An artist is merely a tool with which art molds itself.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#7. I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist - books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are.

Neil Gaiman

#8. Mi-yammi! The extraordinary city, with its Judeo-Cubano population, its mix of surgical-appliance and sex-fetishist obsessions, takes the American melting pot past the boil. It represents pretty much everything Patrick J. Buchanan hates.

David Denby

#9. Mine, mine. Fear, idolatry, hoarding. The delight and terror of the fetishist.

Donna Tartt

#10. Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.

Immanuel Kant

#11. I think hip-hop is really fun right now ... and that's why people are using dance beats and singing more.

Wiz Khalifa

#12. Anti-Tax fetishist Grover Norquist owns a bust of Ronald Reagan, who raised taxes 11 times.

John Fugelsang

#13. I'm sometimes accused of being hostile to mutual funds. That's not fair, really. There is a place for them. Still, I am hostile to one thing, which is trying to use funds to time your way in and out of the market. That's a recipe for very bad results.

Kenneth Fisher

#14. If I want to make political decisions, I should stand for election. If I want to do something in the legal field, that's different; that is my - they are my qualifications, but you know, the politicians are the ones who stand up there and are answerable to the people.

Cherie Blair

#15. I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.

Julia Ward Howe

#16. I'm a fetishist. I make films based on what I would like to see.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#17. Through people that I did know or through things that I did touch, I am connected with everything that ever was and everything that ever will be. Everything hangs together with everything.

David Steindl-Rast

#18. Repress the natural and it comes back even stronger: not everyone can be a fetishist

Philippe Lejeune

#19. Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

Karl Lagerfeld

#20. I'm not a protocol fetishist. It's more important to me that people feel at ease when I'm with them.

Willem-Alexander, Prince Of Orange

#21. There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

Karl Kraus

#22. I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May '43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in '42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn't have any priority in design or production.

Adolf Galland

#23. I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on a manual typewriter (had to trade it for a new one due to keys snapping from metal fatigue) so I am not a pen or typewriter fetishist.

Charles Stross

#24. That sound of settling into the sheets and the covers has to be one of the best things in the world. Sleep is a mercy. You can feel it coming on, like being swept up in something.

Marilynne Robinson

#25. There is no more unhappy being under the sun than a fetishist who pines for a boot and has to content himself with an entire woman.

Karl Kraus

#26. It was like a broken slot machine in the casino that pays off every time. It would keep paying off until someone said something about it; but no one who played the slot machine had any interest in pointing out that it was broken.

Michael Lewis

#27. I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.

Frances Beinecke

#28. We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.

Amity Shlaes