“It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to pick up the secular fashion of the immediate generation before us and immerse oneself in that as your tradition. That's why Christian artists so often seem to be a generation late.” SeemsAgeChristianDesireArtistCultureChristianityGenerationsFashionStupidLatePicksTraditionOneselfRelevantSecularShort SightedUnchristian Author:Calvin Seerveld
“You make adjustments according to the specifics of the character.It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done. It's not even necessarily vulnerability, always, but it's an earnestness, a genuine desire to actually do the right thing, but then still make really misguided, stupid decisions along the way.” WayFeelsStillsDoneCharacterDesireDecisionStupidHeroGenuineRight ThingVulnerabilityAdjustmentComedicMisguidedEarnestnessSpecificsStupid Decision Author:Ed Helms
“Pop music can somehow survive being inhibited and mangled by its harsh and stupid commercial chains, and there is surely irreducible potential because of the 'star system' and the volatile attention pop receives for multiples of wickedness, ridicule, discontent, eccentricity, desire to thrive importantly in a genuinely popular context.” DesireStarsAttentionStupidPopsChainsThriveHarshWickednessRidiculeDiscontentPop MusicEccentricity Author:Paul Morley
“Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.” WarDesireForcePeaceStupidStupidityLibertarianLustMotiveAnti WarAntiwarPeace WarGreat WarMake Peace Not WarPeace Not WarGreat LibertarianStupidity And IgnoranceGood WarSelfish Motives Author:Ayn Rand
“They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.” KnowsFacesDesireIndividualFeltPerfectLaughingStupidDangerParticularImportanceDifficultySafetyFollyOffensiveMy ThoughtsAssuranceEnlighteningCommonplaceOutrageousPretenseIrritatingRestrainingIntrudersFlaunting Book:Heart of Darkness Source: Heart of Darkness