"Most people have never known solitude.... But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge."

-- Louis Aragon

#Doors Quotes #People Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home.”
“Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.”
“We, the people, do have the power to stop [the] tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food.”

Source : "Food waste solutions: cuttlefish testicles and pigs' heads" by Alex Renton, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2014.
“I could be standing in the supermarket, and there is a person standing down the aisle, who is reading the back of a cornflakes box but everything about them is going "It's me! I'm the one you want! I am the necessary subject. This is it!"”

Source : Source: www.americansuburbx.com
“TARP is funded by taxpayers, so there are many rules about how that money can and can't be used. The result: GM spends an awful lot of time checking in with the people who administer TARP over everything from hiring to executive compensation and management. For a global company, that adds up to a lot of distraction.”

Source : "Ed Whitacre: Time for 'Government Motors' to Hit the Road" by Edward Whitacre, Jr., www.wsj.com. September 19, 2012.
“I haven't got a great jazz band and I don't want one. Some of the critics, Down Beat's among them, point their fingers at us and charge us with forsaking real jazz . . . It's all in what you define as 'real jazz.' It happens that to our ears harmony comes first. A dozen colored bands have a better beat than mine. Our band stresses harmony.”
“Buy what's deliverable, not what could be.”
“The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.”

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