#not

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#america #choice #choose #conformity #nothing

A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#days #diplomat #down #head #nothing

You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order to maintain a standard of living that creates more opportunities generation after generation, that's bad for everybody. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#american #american consumer #bad #cannot #consumer

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#aristocratic #been #commerce #ever #mode

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience. ↗

— Chuck Close

#another #another way #colored #dirt #every

For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#every #example #for example #high #high school

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#comics #i #i love #individual #love

I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to meet the emergency, and to supply the deficiency? ↗

— Richard Cobden

#called #cannot #check #deficiency #emergency

It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#another #believe #face #fact #film

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#any #art #artist #cannot #discuss