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“Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.”
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“There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist”
Source : William Buchanan, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (2004). “Mackintosh's Masterwork: The Glasgow School of Art”, p.20, Rutgers University Press
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“Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.”
Source : " Osborne has the potential to leave Labour floundering" by Jonathan Freedland, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2008.
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“Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.”
Source : Andrew Johnson (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: September 1868-April 1869”, p.471, Univ. of Tennessee Press
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“Do you want to know what you are? You are a creator. At every moment you are creating. The real question is, what are you creating?”
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“If it doesn't sweat, jiggle, or pant, it's not alive.”
Source : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “The Grooming of Alice”, p.23, Simon and Schuster
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“Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry,”
Source : 'Love in a Cold Climate' (1949) pt. 1, ch. 2
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“This was what happened after you'd been together with someone a long time. You loved that it was old and worn and comfy, but sometimes it was old and worn and comfy.”
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“Projective geometry is all geometry.”
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“Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.”