#semen

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#age #before #changes #day #disillusioned

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#civic #content #dramatic #endorsement #expression

I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought a house, started raising my kid, made a decent living. ↗

— Kid Rock

#basement #bought #continuum #decent #fourteen

Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#america #appeasement #believe #believes #future

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#amusement #generally #marriage #sad #solemn

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s? ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#generous #how #less #politics #possible

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#clever #never #option #our #policy

A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are. ↗

— Isabella Rossellini

#advertisement #complex #done #first #first of all

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#large #promise #soul

Most people treat the news media like the exercise bike they have in their basement. They're glad it's there but they never use it. ↗