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“Went to get coffee today-opened my change purse. Sea shells fell out. Barista goes "Sorry, we only take cash or credit." So there's that.”
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“Recognising that an ostentatious cult of heroism and state service served an important propaganda function for the British elite does not mean, of course, that we should dismiss it as artificial or insincere. All aristocracies have a strong military tradition, and for many British patricians the protracted warfare of the period was a godsend. It gave them a job, and, more important, a purpose, an opportunity to carry out what they had been trained to do since childhood: ride horses, fire guns, exercise their undoubted physical courage and tell other people what to do.”
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“I plan to do my next two albums with Lady Gaga . She is quite a talent.”
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“I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.”
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“The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to communication industries hastened the consolidation of vernaculars, the rise of nationalism, revolution, and new outbreaks of savagery in the twentieth century.”
Source : Harold Innis (1999). “The Bias of Communication”, p.67, University of Toronto Press
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“I've been blessed. I grew up and played and worked and created with the Freddie Mercury, the Jimi Hendrix, the Keith Richards, the John Paul Jones of my generation”
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“Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals.”
Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 52), 1937.
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“The hand you hold the longest is your own.”
Source : Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.140, Simon and Schuster
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“I've never really thought about competing with cartoons. If it ever gets to that point, then just shoot me.”
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“It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.”
Source : Let Dons Delight ch. 8 (1939)
