"Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled."

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Source : "'Roasted, toasted, fried and grilled': climate-change talk from an unlikely source" by David Runnalls, www.theglobeandmail.com. February 1, 2013.

Christine Lagarde

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“The dark is settling in. The sky glows yellow- pale- anemic from the city lights. The Tenderloin at night is a real horror show. Every 3 feet someone is accosting you with a plea for a handout or the offer of drug or sex. The men and women wander the streets and alleys with a threatening, violont want. Takers looking to take, hustlers looking to hustle, all trying to satisfy a craving that is parpatually unsatisfiable. And tonight I'm one of them.”

Source : Nic Sheff (2012). “Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth”, p.45, Simon and Schuster
“Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.”
“Your poems will happen when no one is there.”
“So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it for one second, it will kill you. Thorns, insects, fungus, worms, birds, reptiles, wild animals, raging rivers, bottomless ravines, dry deserts, snow, quicksand, tumbleweeds, sap, and mud. Rot, poison and death. That's Nature.It's a wonder you even step outside of your cabin, I said.My bravery exceeds my good sense, he said.”

Source : Lee Goldberg (2009). “Mr. Monk in Trouble”, p.70, Penguin
“The first degree of humility is prompt obedience.”
“His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.”
“Xbox has been created by gamers for gamers.”
“If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.”

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