quotes about Screwdrivers

“Perserverance. . .that's been the story of my family.”

“It's not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You have to be the right person in the right place at the right time.”

“It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.”

“Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.”

“The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking, feeling, lost in memory, dreamingly self-aware, the submicroscopic moments.”

Source : Don DeLillo (2010). “Point Omega”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

“So much of the humor on new sitcoms plays to the lowest common denominator. Wit isn't nearly given as much attention as slipping on a banana peel. So much of the writing is so coarse, so obvious that it doesn't provide a shock, never mind a laugh. What makes something funny is alluding to it without laying it out explicitly. You let the audiences fill in the gaps and that's where the laughs come.”

“Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.”

“Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right.”

Source : Jean Dubuffet (1974). “Dubuffet: Paintings, Drawings, Gouaches 1946-1966 ; March, 1974, Donald Morris Gallery”

“It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.”

“Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.”