Can Quotes - page 2

The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. (Aleister Crowley)
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else. What is the other text, the original I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat... where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
I know canned music makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator. View quote
Victor Borge
Canned laughter: After some supposedly funny or witty remark you can hear the laughter and applause included in the soundtrack of the show itself - here we have the exact counterpart of the Chorus in classical tragedy; it is here that we have to look for 'living Antiquity.' That is to say, why this laughter? The first possible answer - that it serves to remind us when to laugh - is interesting enough, because it implies the paradox that laughter is a matter of duty and not of some spontaneous feeling; but this answer is not sufficient because we do not usually laugh. The only correct answer would be that the Other - embodied in the television set - is relieving us even of our duty to laugh - is instead laughing for us. So even if, tired from a hard days stupid work, all evening we did nothing but gaze drowsily into the television screen, we can say afterwards that objectively, through the medium of the other, we had a really good time. View quote
Slavoj Žižek
I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford. View quote
Lee Iacocca
If you worry about financial Armageddon, it is indeed metaphorically the time to stock your bunker with guns, ammunition, canned food and gold bars. View quote
Nouriel Roubini
Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs. View quote
Ralph Bakshi
I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office. View quote
Henry Rollins
The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger. View quote
John Avlon
(Sylvia) A cat who's just been told that he'll have to eat that special canned cat food that comes from the veterinarian for the rest of his life. (Cat) Shoot me now. View quote
Nicole Hollander
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The natural laziness of the mind tempts one to eschew authors who demand a continuous effort of intelligence. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. People tell me that they must read the papers so as to know what is going on. In the first place, they could hardly find a worse guide. Most of what is printed turns out to be false, sooner or later. Even when there is no deliberate deception, the account must, from the nature of the case, be presented without adequate reflection and must seem to possess an importance which time shows to be absurdly exaggerated; or vice versa. No event can be fairly judged without background and perspective. (Aleister Crowley)