Mcsweeney S Quotes

#1. McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

Dave Eggers

#2. Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.

Victoria Chang

#3. As Marilyn Ferguson observed, No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.

Stephen R. Covey

#4. I would not take one cup of coffee from a grower ... There's not a good one. I hate them. A few presents, a little talk, then the noose. That's how capitalism works.

Cesar Chavez

#5. God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.

C.S. Lewis

#6. The Internet is a graveyard, a bright malfunctioning littoral, and it is entirely necropastoral. But the necropastoral can't be sustained - it's non-sustainable.

Joyelle McSweeney

#7. You can't drive to the coastline. You can only drive so close to the white chalky cliff and then you have to get out and dive.

Joyelle McSweeney

#8. I knew that I was going to dedicate my life to music and that was it ...

Zakk Wylde

#9. From the beginning, the imported black men and women resisted their enslavement. Ultimately their resistance was controlled, and

Anonymous

#10. We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

#11. The Internet is such a paradoxical space - it's limitless and totally bounded, apparently free yet corporate-controlled, apparently invisible yet surveilled, a place of disembodiment where bodies are policed and enviolenced, a place that is apparently 'nowhere'.

Joyelle McSweeney

#12. My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and possession, spilling and wounds. Art as a sacred event.

Joyelle McSweeney

#13. People or philosophers keep saying that our fundamental objective in life is to be happy! This is wrong! Our fundamental objective in life is to exist, either happy or unhappy!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. After the most basic physical requirements are satisfied, human happiness is almost independent of wealth. A meaningful job is far more important.

Graeme Simsion

#15. The victorious army is victorious first and seeks battle later; the defeated army seeks battle first and seeks victory later.

Sun Tzu

#16. The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be.

Loesje

#17. You can only understand the pain of love when you fall in love with someone you cannot afford to have.

M.F. Moonzajer