"We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime"

-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#World Quotes #Poverty Quotes #Crime Quotes

“Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls.”
“If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.”

Source : Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.209, Atlantic Books Ltd
“I think the movie business is in trouble. It's all movies that you've seen before. Everything's a remake; they want things that are familiar rather than things that surprise you.”
“Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.”
“I like my home to be somewhere where my friends can feel like they can put their feet up on the couch and for it to feel like really easy living. I really love to have my friends over, cook dinner for them, catch up, and spend quality time with quality people in my life.”
“Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.”
“One good thing about rain in Scotland. Most of it ends up as scotch.”
“Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.”

You may also like:

Alice Walton
Billionaire
Graham Greene
Writer
Oliver Goldsmith
Novelist
Oliver Herford
Writer
Orison Swett Marden
Author
Rudyard Kipling
Writer
Tacitus
Historian
Thomas Carlyle
Philosopher
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Physician