#fusion

By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#already #banking #banking system #been #before

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#artist #chaos #confusion #disparate #frame

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while. ↗

— Jack Welch

#change #company #confusion #even #into

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#confusion #english #force #instead #language

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#certain #confusion #democracy #neat #orderly

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. ↗

— George Santayana

#chaos #confusion #minds #name #order

There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion. ↗

— Tom Selleck

#burt #burt reynolds #confusion #could #did

By now it was too late to call St. Jude. He chose an out-of-the-way patch of airport carpeting and lay it down to sleep. He didn't understand what had happened to him. He felt like a piece of paper that had once had coherent writing on it but had been through the wash. He felt roughened, bleached and worn out along the fold lines. He semi-dreamed of disembodied eyes and isolated mouths in ski masks. He'd lost track of what he wanted, and since who a person was was what a person wanted, you could say that he'd lost track of himself. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#identity #dreams

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#beautiful #beauty #call #field #film

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#american people #brain #due #humor #infusion