Sandcastles Quotes

“I have an odd fascination with sandcastles
and ice sculptures:
things that will only last a few moments.
That’s also why I fall in love with women
who will never love me back.”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium

“You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“so we have these vast convoluted processes of people doing bullshit jobs of incredible complexity, but for no apparent purpose”
― James Suzman

“We had an interesting conversation with one of my Accenture managers toward the end of my tenure there. Something about sandcastles. Well, thank God, he got my point. It’s not a REAL job. You don’t NEED to update your stupid Oracle every 3 years. It shouldn’t be so fucking hard. It’s just debits and credits, isn’t it? What we need to do is find out which jobs in the economy are ACTUALLY essential (bartenders, for instance), pay those people a good wage, and give UBI to everyone else so they can go to the fucking bar. Simple.”
― Dmitry Dyatlov

“Michelangelo sculpted La Pietà when he was 23. At 23, members of my generation could not build even the most miserable of sandcastles.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu