quotes about Fast Car

“Military power tends to be a function of economic power, and the British Navy was the essential capability for establishing the imperial sway - which was attuned to furnish the raw materials for the British manufacturing ascendance. So they were mutually reinforcing.”

Source : Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

“When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul”

“What good were real feelings anyway?”

“We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.”

Source : Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.438, Macmillan

“My art is different than yours; it consists not in defeating others, but in not being defeated.”

“How do you make a small fortune in the wine business? Start with a large fortune and buy a winery.”

Source : Kevin Zraly (2009). “Windows on the World Complete Wine Course”, p.73, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

“For the most part neoconservatives are people who were once liberals but sobered up. The neoliberal is one who has always been a liberal but now replaces the sentimental pieties with brusque slogans ("High-Tech!") and unpronounceable programs. All else stays the same.”

Source : "Meet Evangelist Tony Campolo" by John Oliver Mason, progressive.org. August 5, 2005.

“Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.”

“When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.”

Source : Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.280, Tin House Books

“This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description.”