“Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.”
Leonard Baskin (1922–2000) American sculptor
Leonard Baskin, Publishers Weekly (5 April 1965).
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1978)
“Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.”
Leonard Baskin (1922–2000) American sculptor
Leonard Baskin, Publishers Weekly (5 April 1965).
“It wasn't enough, not nearly enough, but it was all there was.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel
Source: Clockwork Angel
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
1990s, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
“…yucky assembly language mucky-muck.”
Paul DiLascia (1959–2008) American software developer
About language
“It wasn't enough to be kidnapped, I had to be insulted too.”
Charlaine Harris (1951) American writer
“Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.”
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Seditions and Troubles
Essays (1625)
Source: The Essays
“By the living jingo, she was all of a muck of sweat.”
Oliver Goldsmith book The Vicar of Wakefield
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 9.
“Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”
Aldous Huxley book Brave New World
Foreword, to the 1946 edition
Brave New World (1932)
Context: Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrong-doing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
John Hegley (1953) British writer, musician and comedian
"Grandma's glasses" (cf: Matthew 7:3 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Matthew#Chapter_7) <br class="br">Glad To Wear Glasses (1990)
“Because I wasn't Asian enough- they decided to hire an Asian Consultant.”
Margaret Cho (1968) American stand-up comedian
Because I was fucking it up as an Asian. She would follow me around: "Margaret! Use chopsticks! And when you're done eating, you can put them in your hair. Now you're wearing shoes, which is something we don't do in the house. Now I'm just going to leave this abacus right here..."
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