"I talk about going to [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to wreck the economy and muck up the drinking water'... the failure of my pessimistic imagination at that moment boggles my mind now."

-- Sarah Vowell

#Drinking Quotes #Water Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“I believe in order that I may understand.”
“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
“I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt.”
“When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put it on top, your soul is in that food, and there's something about that that can never be made by a company that has three million employees.”

Source : "Making a Meal with Mario Batali". Interview with Debbie Elliott, www.npr.org. October 15, 2005.
“When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.”
“In Palestine, the Israelis claim they found a land without people,' a Syrian officer explained to us. 'Now they will take southern Lebanon and claim they have found another land without people if these refugees do not return.”

Source : Robert Fisk (2001). “Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War”, p.130, Oxford University Press, USA
“My view of the internet is that it is way overrated in what itâ€™s done to date but considerably underrated in what it will do.”
“I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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