dannyzee’s most recent Quotables

A man who sets his face against every sort of humbug is simply a three-cornered, impracticable fellow. There's a bad sort of humbug, but there is also a good style - one that oils the wheels and makes progress possible. If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas... There is no action possible without a little acting.

I don't make prophecies - certainly not about the future.

The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

This is a highly recommended practice: invite the dead to your home from time to time, offer them a coffee and a cake, engage yourself in a good conversation with the dead, and then tell them to go away - don't let them stay in my house. Drop by from time to time. That's the proper relationship between the living and the dead.

There’s no such thing as information overload, there’s only filter failure.

Since feeling is first, who pays any attention, to the syntax of things, will never wholly kiss you;