Paul Fussell Quotes
Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon.Paul Fussell
Quotes to Explore
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First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.
Mac Davis -
That is the core of Trump. He is undoubtedly an idiot, but do not underestimate how good he is at that.
Naomi Klein -
We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.
Mamata Banerjee -
I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian.
Padma Lakshmi -
Career diversification ain't a bad thing.
Vin Diesel -
If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.
Larry David
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I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.
Yuan Yuan Tan -
The thing about happiness is that it doesnt help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I'm grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I've had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me.
Lana Turner -
America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.
Anand Giridharadas -
Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.
Karl Pearson -
Strange how someone you once loved can become just another person you once knew.
Nicki Minaj -
My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.
A. J. Liebling
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The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
T. S. Eliot -
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.
T. H. White -
Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting.
Craig Claiborne -
In order to accomplish more than you ever have before, you must do more than you have ever done before.
Mac Anderson -
Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.
Mary Doria Russell -
War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.
M. E. W. Sherwood
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I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
Manfred von Richthofen -
Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.
J. I. Packer -
The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.
T. S. Eliot -
Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon.
Paul Fussell