quotes about Autonomy

“As with every young player these days, Ronaldo is 18.”

“Gansey studied Adam's erratic handwriting. His letters always looked like they were running from something.”

“I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.”

“I will be going to Belgium to win -- and we will see how the weekend develops from there.”

“It is the experience of those who have tried it, that working from a sense of duty, working for the work's sake, working as a service, instead of for a living, or to make money, or in order to hoard up wealth, brings blessings into the life.”

“We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.”

“Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.”

Source : "Inferior Religions" by Wyndham Lewis, 1917.

“The rich plankton of pop heroes and pop villains on which we Americans are accustomed to feed, the daily media soup of sports figures, ax murderers, politicians, and rock singers, the ever-running river of celebs, heavies, and oddballs that we use to spice up our own relatively humdrum lives has of late become a very watery gruel. Where have all the good guys and bad guys gone? Why does everyone out there look so gray?”

Source : Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

“I listen to John Mayer when I get ready. He's my calmer.”

“Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of Nature, I was trying to express its expansion, rest and unity.”

Source : Piet Mondrian (2008). “Plastic art and pure plastic art, 1937, and other essays, 1941-1943”, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts