"The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted."

-- Richard Powers

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Eye Quotes

“We are not guilty because we are depraved; we are depraved because we are guilty”
“That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.”
“I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.”
“You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes other people make, we speak a language other people developed, we use a mathematics other people evolved and spent their lives building. I mean we're constantly taking things. It's a wonderful ecstatic feeling to create something and put it into the pool of human experience and knowledge.”
“Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.”

Source : Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.39, Crown Business
“It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged. [Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut amicitia munus expletum sit.]”
“Besides the vocal warm ups, me and my band have a secret hand shake that we do just to get us all pumped. It's nice.”
“My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.”

Source : "Sisterhood Now: The Political, the Personal, and the Just" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

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