Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, “Let no more riches enter!” – Aeschylus
So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. – Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879
I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs. – E.F. Schumacher
Television is the first truly democratic culture – the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. – Clive Barnes
I definitely have found a balance. Ive had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it. – Serena Williams
I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men dont really care that much about womens clothes. If they like a girl, chances are theyll like her clothes. – Hedy Lamarr
What has happened to the good old-fashioned travel agent? I want to go to a really posh travel agent and have them organise everything for me. I dont want to do things on the Internet. – Jenny Eclair
