Maximon Four Quotes

#1. (Shoddiness is) the nature of human life. It takes an exertion to be indifferent to these things, but it's an exertion worth making. Also, it allows you luxuries like scorn and flippancy.

Thomas M. Disch

#2. wealth in the rich countries is currently divided into two approximately equal (or comparable) parts: real estate and financial assets.

Thomas Piketty

#3. Chickens, for example, were not people. You looked into a chicken's eyes and you saw the back of the chicken's eyeball.

T. Kingfisher

#4. Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.

Yoshihiko Noda

#5. But I feel like I can go out there and do what I need to do.

Ryan Zimmerman

#6. Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.

Eric Hoffer

#7. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.

Black Elk

#8. The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.

Leslie Jamison

#9. From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Samuel Johnson

#10. I think to many people the term 'activist film' implies a film with a single point of view - something designed to provoke outrage and urge action on a particular issue - sort of the film equivalent of a rally. 'If a Tree Falls' is not that kind of film.

Marshall Curry

#11. Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do not make so much difference.

Ruggiero Ricci

#12. What are you even doing here?' I barred my fangs at Silas. 'Aren't you just a paper pusher?
'That's my girl.' Connor smiled.

Andrea Cremer

#13. You look at CG sometimes and its terrible. You look at CG sometimes and its great.

Seth Rogen

#14. Only bad religions depend on mysteries, just as bad governments depend on secret police.
A character's response to a discussion about eating from the tree of knowledge.

Alasdair Gray

#15. One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress.

Samuel Adams