"Last night my teacher taught me the lesson of Poverty: Having nothing and wanting nothing."

-- Rumi

#Teacher Quotes #Night Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of this tradition of problematic anti-elitism where the elites are always the liberal class - the intellectuals, the professors, the artists - and not the economic elites. Why are we so mad and aggrieved at newspaper editors but not at corporate executives? I think we need to look more at the latter, at economic elites.”
“I remember that first week at the Whisky and the gigs we (The Buffalo Springfield) did with the Byrds, We could really smoke ! That band never got on record as bad, and as hard as we were. Live we sounded like the Rolling Stones...”
“Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.”
“We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?”
“It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.”

Source : "Brendan Behan, Interviews and Recollections". Book by E. H. Mikhail, Vol. 2 (p. 186), 1982.
“I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.”
“I still bite my nails.”
“Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.'”

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