“The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by a mass media notoriously phony”
Paul Goodman
“We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.”
David Mamet
“If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games.”
Bear Bryant
“Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.”
Virginia Woolf
“We don't set it too high, we keep the bar at a reasonable level which means semi-final bound. But I can see we've developed a pretty special team at the moment and particularly if we continue to do as we've done in the trials I think there's a hell of a lot of rewards for us this year.”
Graham Murray
“It's great to be in the semi-finals in Doha.”
Amelie Mauresmo
“With semi stocks, if you're not buying when there are mistakes then you're chasing momentum and that's historically proven to be a difficult strategy. Investors should take advantage of controversy.”
Cody Acree