"In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable."

-- Tom Robbins

#Order Quotes #Authority Quotes #Respectable Quotes

“Sandy: Boy, you must really think I'm stupid or something. Jeff: Ahh, no one would call you stupid, to your face.”
“Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and its free to everyone.”
“You canâ€™t have a bully without a victim.”
“A lot of people think that my work is about mocking or making fun of things, but a lot of it is about discomfort and making myself as uncomfortable as the men feel, or putting myself in a situation where I'm revealing my loneliness as much as they're revealing theirs.”
“I believe in knowing all you can about the music and the people who made the music. I think it's much more important to know some good Miles Davis stories than to know how to play like Miles. I think you'll play better if you know some of the funny things he did than if you know the licks that he played.”
“But times do change and move continually.”

Source : Edmund Spenser (1758). “THE FAERIE QUEENE.”, p.456
“I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.”
“Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable.”

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