Chris Aquino > Chris's Quotes

“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”
― Marianne Williamson

“One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

“But what if God himself can be simulated, that is to say can be reduced to signs that constitute faith? Then the whole system becomes weightless, it is no longer anything but a gigantic simulacrum - not unreal, but simulacrum, that is to say never exchanged for the real, but exchanged for itself, in an uninterrupted circuit without reference or circumference.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

“The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void. We are back in the Byzantine situation, where idolatry calls on a plethora of images to conceal from itself the fact that God no longer exists. That's why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of a presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories

“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

“Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.”
― Jean Baudrillard

“The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Fragments

“All societies end up wearing masks.”
― Jean Baudrillard, America

“Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.”
― Henny Youngman

“I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to stop going to those places.”
― Henny Youngman

“A drunk was in front of a judge. The judge says "You've been brought here for drinking." The drunk says "Okay, let's get started.”
― Henny Youngman

“When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.”
― Henny Youngman

“If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.”
― Henny Youngman

“I've got all the money I'll ever need. If I die by 4:00.”
― Henny Youngman

“My grandmother is over eighty
and she still doesn’t need glasses.

Drinks right out of the bottle.”
― Henny Youngman

“I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. - Henny Youngman”
― Henny Youngman

“Dancing on pointe...Why don't they just get taller girls?”
― Henny Youngman

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.”
― Daniel Patrick Moynihan