“Price tags advertise your pride.”
Lyrics, A Crow Left of the Murder... (2004)
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American rock singer, writer and visual artist 1976Related quotes
“I never yet touched a fig leaf that didn't turn into a price tag.”
Saul Bellow book Humboldt's Gift
Humboldt's Gift (1975), p. 159
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Jacque Fresco (1916–2017) American futurist and self-described social engineer
Source: Designing the Future (2007), p.81
“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Une oeuvre où il y a des théories est comme un objet sur lequel on laisse la marque du prix. <br class="br">Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, part VII: Time Regained, chapter III, "An Afternoon Party at the House of the Princesse de Guermantes" ( French version http://web.archive.org/web/20010708070436/http://gallica.bnf.fr/proust/TempsRetrouve.htm and English translation http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/p/proust/marcel/p96t/chapter3.html). <br class="br">Misattributed
Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora
Interlude “The Last Mistake” section 1 (p. 179)
The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006)
Alber Elbaz (1961–2021) Israeli fashion designer
Source: US Vogue, https://www.vogue.com/article/alber-elbaz-best-quotes
Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949) Indian politician, governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949
"But this must transcend even national borders and extend to humanity because if ideas be only for the prosperity of your country, it would end where it began, by being a prophet to your own community and very probably to your own self.
In another lecture in Madras now (Chennai) quoted in "Selected Letters, Gandhi -Sarojini Naidu Correspondence, Preface".
Poetry
Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949) Indian politician, governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949
In another lecture in Madras now (Chennai) quoted in "Selected Letters, Gandhi -Sarojini Naidu Correspondence, Preface".
Poetry
“I have a horror of tags and labels.”
Andrei Tarkovsky book Sculpting in Time
Source: Sculpting in Time (1986), p. 149
Context: I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's "symbolism". Far from being symbolic, be seems to me, through and almost biological naturalism, to arrive at the spiritual truth about human life that is important to him.