#alien

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#alienation #day #escape #left #only

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#inalienable #logical #picturesque #poetry #sentences

After all these years, it's still amazing what Obama is allowed to get away with. He says low gas prices in 2009 were caused by a terrible economy, but then claims that the lower number of illegal aliens crossing the border is because of his border policies, not the same lousy economy. ↗

— Howie Carr

#allowed #amazing #away #because #border

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do. ↗

— John le Carre

#another #back #balance #bank #childhood

It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar. ↗

— Steve Vai

#bar #because #classical #classical guitar #could

The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race. ↗

— Chris Ware

#creation #discussion #fruits #hears #human

You watch people and study them the way an alien would. ↗

— Billy West

#people #study #them #watch #way

'Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination. ↗

— Corey Hart

#being #belief #every #fear #free

I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work. ↗

— Walter Hill

#alien #did #direct #effects #excited

I think if you alienate people and just focus on your work then it just becomes lonely and it's not fun anymore. ↗

— Julianne Hough

#anymore #becomes #focus #fun #i