Another selection of interesting and curious quotes, recently encountered.
Football is a bunch of millionaires ruining a lawn.
[Charlie Brooker]
Man who catch fly with chopstick achieve anything.
[Mr Miyagi, in The Karate Kid (1984)]
In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics’. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
[George Orwell]
Political language … is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
[George Orwell]
If … man can go to the moon, women should be able to get people to take their clothes off!
[Lady God1va at http://ladygod1va.wordpress.com/2014/06/24/worldnaturists/]
If a problem is fixable, there is no need to worry … If it’s not fixable, then there is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.
[Dalai Lama]
Mega-projects have become the quack remedies of modern politics. As soon as one is mooted it attracts lobbyists … like moths to a light.
[Simon Jenkins; Guardian; 27/06/2014]
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
[Shakespeare]
Nakedness has nothing to do with clothes.
[Fully Disclothed on Twitter]
Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.
[Joseph Campbell]
If we destroyed everything which had connections with someone of ill-repute, we’d end up razing the whole bloody world to a featureless billiard ball. All our castles and most of our cathedrals would go for starters, if there were any art galleries left, they’d be mostly empty. Such is the sad nature of human existence and creativity. Perhaps we need to face up to it, rather than rage, pointlessly, decades after the event?
[Andrew J Baker on Facebook]
The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen’s lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.
[Winston Churchill]
They slipped briefly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
[F Scott Fitzgerald ]