Used Quotes - Page 56

Change is not always progress... A fever of newness has everywhere been confused with the spirit of progress.

Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.

If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently.

I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.

I wandered around in a confused daze for most of the '90s unable to even remember why I wanted to be a filmmaker and somehow I found myself at the turn of the century. I used lost film as an excuse to express myself.

Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.

[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.

I only used my whole life one perfume, and it's Cartier's Les Must.

Arsenal haven't won anything for three years, so they're used to success

I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny.

DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.

Basically we get confused a bit about what retail is. It is really just buying things, putting them on a floor and selling them.

I'm not used to saying I'm gonna do something and i don't do it.

Vonnegut's war was necessary. And yet it was massacre and screaming and confusion and blood and death. It was the mammoth projection outward of the confused inner life of men. In war, the sad tidy constructs we make to help us believe life is orderly and controllable are roughly thrown aside like the delusions they are. In war, love is outed as an insane, insupportable emotion, a kind of luxury emotion, because everywhere you look, someone beloved to someone is being slaughtered, by someone whose own beloved has been slaughtered, or will be, or could be.

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.

Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.

The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.

We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.

Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

The mug from the washstand was used as Becky's tea cup, and the tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend that it was anything but tea.

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