#roy

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#change #cultural #driven #exclusive #great

Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment. ↗

— John Amery

#air #air force #arms #come #equipment

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin. ↗

— Aesop

#evil #grow #grow up #ruin #seed

Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed. ↗

— Steve Albini

#band #contract #destroyed #either #eventually

If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love to have this king to look up to - the royals are like celebrities. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#british #celebrities #family #going #goofy

God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself. ↗

— Norman Angell

#cannot #conquered #destroyed #except #god

People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me. ↗

— Adam Ant

#companies #company #destroyed #did #i

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#control #destroy #enough #even #ignorance

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#bombing #carefully #century #dalton #destroyed

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. ↗

— Jane Austen

#aim #destroys #distinction #dress #excessive