"ANOINT, v.t.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. As sovereigns are anointed by the priesthood, So pigs to lead the populace are greased good."

-- Liu Shaoqi

#Kings Quotes #Pigs Quotes #Grease Quotes

“My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.”
“Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica of the Roman or Venetian republics. They didn't even like the etymology of the word "democracy."”
“New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.”
“I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.”
“Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.”
“I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days”
“My advice to you... is to start drinking heavily.”
“If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation.”

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