“All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on the end and put in on the market. It's that kind of commoditization and completion of your life before you die - and this kind of imposition of a public idea of self that replaces the actual living self - that I find so frightening.” PeopleKindIdeasEndsSelfBigsDiesHouseWaitingMajorsSittingFatsFrighteningPublishingBiographiesSlapCompletionImpositionPublishing House Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“As a former English major, I am a sitting duck for Gift Books, and in the past few years I've gotten Dickens, Thackeray, Smollet, Richardson, Emerson, Keats, Boswell and the Brontes, all of them Great, none of them ever read by me, all of them now on a shelf, looking at me and making me feel guilty.” FeelsYearsBookPastMajorsSittingGuiltyFormerDucksShelvesDickensEnglish MajorBronte Author:Garrison Keillor
“My record producer [David Kahne] said the major record labels these days are like dinosaurs sitting around discussing the asteroid. They know it's going to hit. They don't know when, they don't know where it's coming from. But it's sort of hit already. With iTunes, and all of that.” KnowsSaidRecordsMajorsSittingProducersLabelsThese DaysDinosaursDiscussingSitting AroundRecord LabelsAsteroidsItunes Author:Paul McCartney
“Success looks like you sitting here pretty confident that an armed brigade isn't going to come pouring in here and blow your head off. Which I don't think is your major concern. Therefore, the United States' foreign policy is successful.” ThinkingLooksStatesUnitedUnited StatesSuccessfulPolicyLike YouMajorsSittingConcernBlowForeign PolicyPouring Author:George Friedman
“One of the things that any kind of studies bring out is that the mere act of schooling - getting together, the organization involved, going to classes on time, and there're things being taught, sitting down with others with different backgrounds, chatting with them, and, sometimes when there are big barriers, eating together when there are school meals, which are big things together with a big social impact - they themselves have a major effect.” KindDifferentSometimesBigsSchoolTogetherSocialClassStudyEffectsTaughtInvolvedEatingMajorsSittingOrganizationImpactMereBackgroundsMealsBarriersBig ThingsSchoolingSitting DownChattingDifferent BackgroundsSocial ImpactEating Together Author:Amartya Sen
“My whole life has been completely about being underestimated. I remember when Blink signed to a major label, and we had a debut party for the signing. No one came to party, only the guy that signed us. And I remember sitting there, like, "S**t, no one likes this."” Has BeensWholeRememberGuyPartyMajorsSittingWhole LifeLikesLabelsRemember WhenBlinkSigningUnderestimatedDebut Author:Tom DeLonge
“He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers' night club, where the drunken Anzac major who had brought her there had been stupid enough to desert her for the ribald company of some singing comrades at the bar. "All right, I'll dance with you," she said, before Yossarian could even speak. "But I won't let you sleep with me." "Who asked you?" Yossarian asked her. "You don't want to sleep with me?" she exclaimed with surprise. "I don't want to dance with you.” WantSaidEnoughNightFoundSpeakSleepCompanyStupidMajorsSingingSittingTablesSurpriseClubsBarsDesertOfficersComradeWant To SleepYossarianNight ClubSitting AloneRibald Book:Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition Source: Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition