#mm

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone. ↗

— Francis Picabia

#everyone #five #gadget #immortal #lasts

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#comment #make #painter #painting #sculpture

When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#how #look #market #need #speculators

In this society, or rather our social construct, where almost all is left up to the individual’s interpretation, the line between virtue and vice seems less perceptible than ever before. At least in my experience, of something I have noted repeatedly and in my observation of people’s communication regarding the issue, I have come to my own conclusions. Albeit arrogantly, and with a sense of disdain for the tales that have been “made-up” in support of human hypocrisy, I am convinced that most people cannot discern between right and wrong, good and evil and least of all, true or false. ↗

— Peyton Dracco

#hypocrisy #right-and-wrong #subjectivity #truth #communication

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#book #choose #commercial #dead #fiction

If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#also #commentary #first #good #guarantee

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#also #awareness #commentary #dickens #fiction

During my time as England captain I have always been both helpful and direct in my communications with the ECB. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#been #both #captain #communications #direct

If I had done what I was programmed to do, I would now be sitting in a car factory looking at the sizes of wheels, or wondering how to get credit to start a new factory in Russia. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

#credit #done #factory #get #had

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#been #both #christianity #commitment #conflict