Quotes About Associations

You know, Rupert Murdoch I've said is like an Italian when it comes to negotiations.

Detroit in its heyday - let's say, 1920s to the '60s - was never a huge downtown-living thing. People lived in the neighborhoods.

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

I get nerdy and nervous around not only great actors, but great directors and DPs I love.

It's normal when there's a new show on the air to say this is the new 'Game of Thrones' or this is the new 'Vikings,' because we need to put things in boxes.

I don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover.

Well, I think a lot of people only hear about the extreme, fundamentalist kind of polygamists, because they're always in the news being brought up on charges.

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

I think there are a few brands like Nike and Patagonia which are quite progressively minded.

Did you ever notice how some colors are used for people's names but others aren't?

The change that Trump is likely to bring will be harmful or worse, but it is understandable that the consequences are not clear to isolated people in an atomized society lacking the kinds of associations (like unions) that can educate and organize.

Her share of what? he wondered, then shook his head

This is the paradoxical responsibility of the reader: to replenish the strangeness of the novel by making connections with the familiar.

One A.F.S. man wrote bluntly: 'Everybody loots . . . The A.R.P. Wardens, Demolition Men . . . the Police.

Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations. The same way old painters would sit in a tiny dark room and trace the image of what stood outside a tiny window, in the bright sunlight. The camera obscura. Not the exact image, but everything reversed or upside down.

How the agent explained this to me was, we weren't targeting the smartest people in the world, just the most.

A plantation was a plantation; one might think one's misfortunes distinct, but the true horror lay in their universities.

You're manic-depressive and you're manic-depressive too and you, you're definitely manic-depressive, girl. And you over there in the corner, you're just plain fucking depressive.

Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today – that they are stored with other meanings, with other memories, and they have contracted so many famous marriages in the past.

Oh, Lolita, you are my girl, as Vee was Poe's and Bea Dante's, and what little girl would not like to whirl in a circular skirt and scanties?

I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.

Laura Lee Hope

We have some of the meanest spirits among us on earth. The net has halled in good and bad

I mean, scamming on guys on the Internet? I thought that was only for forty-year-old divorcees who Photoshop their pictures in an effort to appear younger and thinner.