An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.
Self-help books for those who believe 'You can have it all' often advise, 'Follow your bliss and money will follow. ' With the collapse of the stock markets the reality of trade-offs is more like, 'When you follow your bliss, it's money you'll miss. '
The fact is, I don't know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn't collapse when you beat your head against it.
Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in rhetoric, if not practice, of liberal democracy.
Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse.
It's my nature to go around in high spirits most of the time and then to collapse.
The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
Old houses are full with memories and that's why they resist to collapse!
Then there's politics. Just imagine politics with its dumbbell element subtracted. There would be no Republican candidates. There would be no Democratic voters. The whole system would collapse.
Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.
Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the state [People's Republic of China].
People in Russia say that those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those that do regret it have no brain.
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
I went to India as a missionary to save England from spiritual collapse.
When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.
If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.
I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p. m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise.