Quotes for All
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go flopping along. By doing this he helps us to question and reassess our past, present and future situations, our assumptions and our options. Evelyn Waugh
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. Evelyn Waugh
Flip-flopping is kind of an easy thing to identify. During a recent convention, we heard an irate Senator make an angry speech declaring that it is not what you say but, rather, what you do that counts. You flip-flop when you make promises and fail to fulfill them. Frank Lautenberg
I go so far as to say, miss, morehover, proceeded Mr. Cruncher, with a most alarming tendency to hold forth as from a pulpit-and let my words be took down and took to Mrs. Cruncher through yourself-that wot my opinions respectin’ flopping has undergone a change, and that wot I only hope with all my … Read more
I never made any money from my music. I don’t make that much; I make it flip-flopping between five and ten different disciplines. Charlemagne Palestine
2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and the landladies stare in the halls; brisk the music of pulled shades, a last man’s cave in an eternity of swarm and explosion; nothing but the dripping sink, the empty … Read more
I guess it’s not the plan that counts, but the words in which the plan is wrapped. Semantics count for everything, and it’s obvious that the resolute Republicans are better at semantics than the weak, flip-flopping Democrats. Bruce Barnbaum
I guess it’s good in a sense that it stops any of it from happening, but now you’re telling me if it’s Game 7 of the NBA Finals and a guy has a chance to make a play he’s going to be like, ‘Well, do I want this $10,000 or do I want a championship?’ … Read more
I guess he’ll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it means to be human, to have the darkness just as much as the light- that in fact the dark parts make the light visible; without them, the light would disappear. But … Read more
Hollywood’s thinking is very typical. And it’s just really predictable too. And I think at Hollywood, these box office movies are flopping. I mean, there hasn’t been an original thought coming out of Hollywood since the ’80s. Andrea Tantaros