Ofconsumption Quotes

#1. We call the heroes of the past heroes of production.We feel entitled to call the present day magazine heroes 'idols ofconsumption'.Indeed, almosteveryoneofthem is directly, or indirectly, related to the sphere of leisure time.

Leo Lowenthal

#2. Knowledge cannot be maintained without character.

Raheel Farooq

#3. I'm pretty involved in everything I do, which isn't always efficient and doesn't necessarily make for the more successful product. But I do feel that, in that sense, everything I do has a comprehensiveness to it.

Sufjan Stevens

#4. Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.

Gary Keller

#5. I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.

Finn Wittrock

#6. I'm not a big sports fan.

Harlan Coben

#7. I'm not going to be caught unawares again," Haydn argues. "Loving her made me weak. Foolish. And it was totally pointless anyway, because she has only ever loved you.

Siobhan Davis

#8. One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

Henry Adams

#9. For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge.

Tom Stoppard

#10. Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

#11. One should not utter a word about his own inadequacies. In the Oxo it says: 'When a man lets out a single word, the long and short of him will be known.'

Takeda Nobushige