"Texas Senator Ted Cruz said if elected president he would abolish the Department of Education. But not to worry. He promised to replace it with the less expensive Bureau of Book Learning."

-- Conan O'Brien

#Book Quotes #Texas Quotes #Worry Quotes

“Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.”
“Sleep is cousin-german unto death: Sleep and death differ, no more, than a carcass And a skeleton.”
“The people you don't know turn out to be exactly like the people you do know, same faults, same everything.”
“Gandhiji would always offer full details of his plans and movements to the police, thereby saving them a great deal of trouble. One police inspector who availed himself of Gandhi's courtesy in this matter is said to have been severely reprimanded by his chief. 'Don't you know,' he told the inspector, 'that everyone who comes into close contact with that man goes over to his side?'”

Source : Reginald Reynolds (1952). “A Quest for Gandhi”
“I have never ever Googled myself, in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.”
“Country Music has always changed for the times, if you listen to the recordings from the 50's to 60's to 70's, to now, the message is still there, basic down to earth songs about real people, it the music that's been updated. Some of it I like, but still prefer the traditional sound.”
“It's been very jarring for me to stand in public and read about myself and my daughter and her father. I feel like I'm reading someone else's story, and I feel like I've lost something, too, in the writing of self, as if I'm standing and reading myself, as a stranger, to other strangers.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have been made to show that all great art is provincial in the sense of reflecting a place, a time, and a Zeitgeist.”

Source : Richard M. Weaver (1987). “The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver”, Liberty Fund

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