"Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you're not one."

-- John H. McWhorter

#Queens Quotes #Real Quotes #Drama Quotes

“The main reason we are held hostage by the most destructive technology on earth is simple: the complete lack of international resolve to ban nuclear weapons and banish them from the arsenals of the world.”
“A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.”
“It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.”
“Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties”

Source : Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage
“I don't know, man. Look at me. I've changed. I've grown up. I've got a job, got a career ... I drink coffee now.”
“Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord, and let your service be according to reason.”
“There is an expression-walking with beauty. And I believe that this endless search for beauty in surroundings, in people and one's personal life, is the headstone of travel.”
“Today's meters are little computers.”

Source : "Watch The Parking Meters". www.wired.com. September 4, 2005.

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