"Rage is ... This is Breslin's full quote: Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers"

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Source : 1990 In The Times, 9 May

Jimmy Breslin

#Writing Quotes #Quality Quotes #Rage Quotes

“We cannot find God for the same reason that a thief can't find a police officer.”

Source : Michael Horton (2011). “Putting Amazing Back Into Grace: Embracing the Heart of the Gospel”, p.46, Baker Books
“We really want to send the message that commanders need to understand and be accountable. We saw that with the Catholic Church. No one cared when they went after the priests, but when they focused on the bishops then things began to change. And we see that analogy working with the military.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“In our lonely hours we awake those sleeping images with which our memories are stored, and vitalize them again.”
“I'm not crazy, I'm just colorful.”
“Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]”
“The police [in South Africa] would check in on you randomly. And they would come into the house, and they would look through that registry and look at all the names of all the people who were registered to be living in the house. And they would, you know, cross-reference that with the actual inhabitants of the dwelling.I was never on that piece of paper. I was always hidden. My grandmother would hide me somewhere if the police did show up. And it was a constant game of hide and seek.”
“From our point of view, we're just curious, we're poking around and having fun. If it's science, if it's accurate, if it's not accurate, we did the best we can to keep things clean and understandable, but we're just having fun, so sue us if we got something wrong.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“There are few things less stylish than a boring, self absorbed twit.”

Source : Karen Karbo (2011). “Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World’S Most Elegant Woman”, p.20, Rowman & Littlefield

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