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Letter "S" » scheme
«Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.»
Author: C. Wright Mills
| Keywords:
aims, comic, comic strip, Comic strips, commercial, common denominator, cultural, denominator, denominators, incidence, machines, mannerism, mannerisms, mass media, movie set, opera, Pre, pulp, scheduled, scheme, soap, soap opera, soap operas, urban
«Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.»
Author: Georges Bernanos
| Keywords:
come off, despises, endowed, hospitals, installment, installments, judas, laboratories, Libraries, magnificent, niche, niches, public funds, public libraries, public library, scheme, The Deal
«And the conception of a God so constituted that we are, as individuals, of direct concern to Him appears both presumptuous - considering our individual insignificance in the scheme as a whole - and unnecessary for that feeling of helpless reverence i»
Author: Hans Zinsser
| Keywords:
as a whole, conception, Considering, constituted, helpless, insignificance, presumptuous, reverence, scheme, unnecessary
«If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.»
«Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice.»
Author: Oliver Stone
(Motion-picture director, Producer, Screenwriter)
| About:
Cinema
| Keywords:
bleak, bleakest, cinema, grand, inch, independent, scheme, the Master
«It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Hate,
Love
| Keywords:
All Good Things, scheme, scheming
«I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this -- no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.»
«If cartoonists would look at this more as an art than as a part time job or a get-rich-quick scheme, I think comics overall would be better. I think there's a tremendous potential to be tapped.»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
| Keywords:
cartoonist, cartoonists, comics, on tap, overall, overalls, part time, potential, quick, scheme, scheming, tapped, tapping, taps, tremendous
«If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to listen to your troubles you can be readjusted to the crazy scheme of things and spare yourself the humiliation of becoming a Christian Scientist. You can have your ego trimmed or removed, as you wish, just like a wart or bunion.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
bunion, Christian Scientist, humiliation, scheme, trimmed, Twenty Five, wart, well-off
«In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
alternative, cherished, Open and, scheme, take up
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