Quotes of: Des-moines Keyword

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.

Vivienne Westwood

When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.

Vivienne Westwood

When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.

Vivienne Westwood

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

Vivienne Westwood

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

Vivienne Westwood

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.

Vivienne Westwood

I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.

Vivienne Westwood

Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.

Vivienne Westwood

I do think we're an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest.

Vivienne Westwood

When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind.

Ward Churchill

The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.

Ward Churchill

Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person.

Warren Farrell

Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.

Walter Kirn

I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called.

Walter Kirn

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

Walter Kirn

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

Walter Kirn

When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?

Walter Kirn

@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.

Walter Kirn

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

A. N. Wilson

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

A. N. Wilson

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

A. N. Wilson