Mary McCarthy Quotes
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
Mary McCarthy
Quotes to Explore
-
The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.
Bar Refaeli
-
We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
Madeleine Albright
-
If you want success, be unique.
Natalie Massenet
-
I think quotes are very dangerous things.
Kate Bush
-
The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.
W. Bruce Cameron
-
Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.
Pat Buchanan
-
All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.
Lao Tzu
-
Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather.
Edmund White
-
I'm still really interested in acting, I love film so much. It's definitely something I'm going to explore as well.
Olivia Culpo
-
Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.
Walter Kirn
-
I am the Attributeless, Absolute, Nirguna. I have no name, no residence.
Sai Baba
-
Business has to be fun. For too many people, it's 'just a job.'
Jack Welch
-
We live in a world in which celebrity recognition, media access, and power translate very quickly into political power and indeed economic power.
Alexander Stille
-
Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people.
Ziggy Marley
-
Golden hands. It is said that all Poles have them, and that this is how you know your place in life, by the ease of your hands, that whether you are born to make cakes or butcher animals, cuddle children or paint pictures, drive nails or play jazz, your hands know it before you do. Long before birth, the movements are choreographed into the tendons as they're formed.
Brigid Pasulka
-
Ah, 'Pather Panchali' was the most inspiring film that I wrote music for, and it was so spontaneously done. I saw the film, composed on the spot, along with myself and only four other musicians, and everything was done within 4-1/2 hours, I think an all-time record anywhere.
Ravi Shankar
-
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
Mary McCarthy