#co

Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed, in the great fashion paradox, as both novelty and need. ↗

— James Buchan

#competitive #conspicuous #consumption #creates #desires

I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years. ↗

— Larry Buchanan

#acting #bit #contract #doing #fox

Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest. ↗

— Pat Buchanan

#just #like #newspaper #post #priest

You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#could #even #fall #lie #love

Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We're living our lives inside one form of corporation or another. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#corporation #form #inside #like #lives

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. ↗

— Art Buchwald

#anymore #anything #doing #itself #make

Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was. ↗

— Art Buchwald

#comes #ebb #every #every time #hit

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#down #get #got #i #know

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#achieve #certain #confidence #costs #decided

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#enjoy #excellence #how #joy #know