"His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both its sponsors and its intended audience."

-- Lewis H. Lapham

#Mean Quotes #Government Quotes #Television Quotes

“The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.”

Source : "I still haven't written the best I can" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2009.
“Over the last four years, I've made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.”
“I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues, if you don't want to work on it for thirty years, don't start."”
“Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”

Source : 1847; quoted by propagandist and language maven William Safire, New York Times Magazine, 13 December 1998.
“I am young and avid for glory.”
“The scarily brilliant Romantic poet and visionary William Blake dared to say what many of us have perhaps thought but kept to ourselves: â€œA good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and thereâ€™s more conversation.”
“My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit, as well as physically.”
“President Bush will go down in history as the torture president. He has now defied a majority of Congress to allow the use of interrogation techniques that any reasonable observer would call torture.”

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