#ura

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

Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#chechnya #disaster #far #life #like

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

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

— Dan Quayle

#bowlers #cultural #elite #people #vote

Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#considerably #encouraged #end #had #increased

I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable. ↗

— Aidan Quinn

#fame #find #get #i #level

I'd wear clogs, short pants and ladies' bracelets. I created this aura for myself. ↗

— Aidan Quinn

#created #i #ladies #myself #pants

Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment. ↗

— Sally Quinn

#advice #bush #depends #did #find

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort. ↗

— Quintilian

#correcting #discourage #effort #faults #liable

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#benevolence #cause #charity #expecting #harm