"People were encouraged to snitch. [South Africa] was a police state, so there were police everywhere. There were undercover police. There were uniformed police. The state was being surveilled the entire time."

-- Trevor Noah

#People Quotes #Police Quotes #Snitch Quotes

“Cherry cobbler is shortcake with a soul.”
“[The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins. Having rolled back the landmark economic reforms of the sixties (the war on poverty) and those of the thirties (labor law, agricultural price supports, banking regulation), its leaders now turn their guns on the accomplishments of the earliest years of progressivism (Woodrow Wilson's estate tax; Theodore Roosevelt's anti-trust measures). With a little more effort, the backlash may well repeal the entire twentieth century.”

Source : "What's the Matter with Kansas?". Book by Thomas Frank, 2004.
“I don't think just being skinny means necessarily anorexic.”

Source : "Still Skinny in Milan" by Nick Watt, abcnews.go.com. February 27, 2007.
“Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.”
“Unfortunately, our stock is somehow not well understood by the markets. The market compares us with generic companies. We need to look at Biocon as a bellwether stock. A stock that is differentiated, a stock that is focused on R&D, and a very, very strong balance sheet with huge value drivers at the end of it.”
“What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.”

Source : "Filmmaker J. J. Abrams Is a Crowd Teaser" by Frank Bruni, www.nytimes.com. May 26, 2011.
“Her heartbeat was in her hands, her heart beat the way she moved her head, her whole body was her heart beating.”

Source : Tom Spanbauer (2007). “Now Is the Hour”, p.393, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes.”

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