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“We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America.”
Source : "Bush: U.S. won't abandon Iraqi people", www.cnn.com. September 23, 2004. 
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“Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.”
Source : "Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education of the 21st Century". www.nwp.org. 2006.
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“However you look at it, in these books "power" tends to be an expression of the essential nature of the person or being whose power it is. On those occasions when we've seen Lord Foul act directly, he seems to exert the withering force of pure scorn. IMHO, that's pretty intense.”
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“I fell like a lot of times, when I write a song, it is coming from an introspective perspective that my faith always kind of factors. Faith is either part of what factors in to my decision making, or it is part of what factors into my fears and my doubts. It is either the positive or the negative part of it that is afflicting me during times of conflict, which is normally when you write songs about yourself when you find some sort of conflict or you are seeking some sort of resolution.”
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“The asp doth on his feeder feed.”
Source : 1649 Lucasta,'A Fly Caught in a Cobweb'.
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“The smile that covered a "multitude of pains" was no hypocritical mask. She was trying to hide her sufferings - even from God! - so as not to make others, especially the poor, suffer because of them. When she promised to do "a little extra praying & smiling" for one of her friends, she was alluding to an acutely painful and costly sacrifice: to pray when prayer was so difficult and to smile when her interior pain was agonizing.”
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“In the meantime [1963-65], [Bob] Dylan was writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "Girl From the North Country," "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright," and "It Ain't Me, Babe."”
Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com
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“Parents wrongly assume that their daughters live in a world similar to the one they experienced as adolescents. They are dead wrong. Their daughters live in a media-drenched world floded with junk values. As girls turn from their parents, they turn to this world for guidance about how to be an adult.”
Source : Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.56, Penguin
