"Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers."

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Source : Chris Priestley (2010). “Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth”, p.12, Bloomsbury Publishing

Chris Priestley

#Strange Quotes #Newspapers Quotes

“I'd have to say that, in general, models take themselves too seriously. Basically, they are genetic freaks who spend a couple of hours in hair and makeup.”
“Asian colleges would do well to use a broad range of criteria in selecting students and move beyond the unproductive "examination hell. "”
“If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.”

Source : "Bridging the gap between environmental and social justice" by Lauren Rabaino, mustangnews.net. April 4, 2008.
“Mind alone remains stable, and watches the chaos of phenomena, and knows that there is a plastic unity of existence - a changeless harmony - behind the everchanging.”
“So often in my life I've been with people and shared beautiful moments like travelling or staying up all night and watching the sunrise, and I knew it was a special moment, but something was always wrong. I wished I'd been with someone else. I knew that what I was feeling - exactly what was so important to me - they didn't understand.”
“If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what we have (Hebrews 13:5). Much of our discontentment may be traced to expectations that are essentially selfish and more often than not completely unrealistic.”
“Under the old rules, Steve Bannon could never get a security clearance. But there could be a new rule, the Trump Rule.”
“In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to support this interest with skills and techniques related to the process of finding out than to specify any particular piece of subject matter as inviolate.”

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