"Another effect of news articles is that the events, however frightening, can thus be consigned to the box of things that happen to other people, not us, and that we are doing things to bring them under control. This is the diet we're fed all the time, so we acculturate to it. And news must, in turn, follow the form to which we - our bodies - are accustomed: describe the event, incite the fear, then say how it's being addressed, how the herd's alpha males are dealing with it."

-- Zia Haider Rahman

#People Quotes #Alpha Male Quotes #Frightening Quotes

“I have certainly had my share of long-distance love affairs.”
“Magic is the practice of causing change through the use of powers as yet not defined or accepted by science.”

Source : Scott Cunningham (2012). “Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs”, p.11, Llewellyn Worldwide
“I think when I was getting into directing, or wanting to be a director, when I was a teenager, the two films that really inspired me were Raising Arizona and Evil Dead II. And in the case of the former, I thought, "Wow. Why don't all comedies look like this?" And then as I started doing comedy, particularly when I started doing it on TV...”

Source : "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.
“When you are tired of life, come to Haven. And someone will kill you.”

Source : Simon R. Green (2015). “The Guards of Haven”, p.10, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
“First of all, never play macho man with the market. Second, never overtrade.”
“Unclog your mind. Unclog your room. Arrange your room in a way you wish your mind would be.”
“A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.”
“The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.”

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