#cult

I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#bad #bad taste #been #believe #called

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. ↗

— Pythagoras

#difficult #easy #nothing #reluctantly #you

As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#always #attempts #because #birth #break

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#been #between #cultures #evident #generally

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#bowlers #cultural #elite #people #vote

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech. ↗

— Quintilian

#architect #character #creator #distinguish #faculty

I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult. ↗

— Katy Perry

#always #balance #circus #continue #difficult

As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca. ↗

— Tom Peters

#around #as far as #business #concerned #cult

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#hated #loved #make #more #oneself

The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council. ↗

— David Petraeus

#could #council #difficult #during #elected