"I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed the brutal incomprehension of children."

-- Isadora Duncan

#Girl Quotes #Children Quotes #Memories Quotes

“No one else noticed, or cared. It was just something they did. Taking other peopleâ€™s livestock. Other peopleâ€™s lives. She watched the soldiers, hating them. They were different in so many ways, white and black, yellow and brown, skinny, short, tall, small, but they were all the same. Didnâ€™t matter if they wore finger-bone necklaces, or baby teeth on bracelets, or tattoos on their chests to ward off bullets. In the end, they were all mangled with battle scars and their eyes were all dead.”

Source : Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.39, Hachette UK
“Oh, here's your tax dollars at work. This is what makes people furious. The head of the GSA, a woman named Martha Johnson, has resigned after they found out she spent over $830,000 on a four-day government conference in Las Vegas. And the president is furious. Not President Obama, the president of China. It's his money. It's his money she spent.”
“You cannot tie your fiance to the railroad track of self-reflection and personal improvement.”
“The whole body reacts to color. If you were to walk into an all-neon-pink room, it would be difficult not to react. I think it is a unified, human thing to feel color with everything. It is like standing next to a bass speaker plugged into your eyeballs.”
“I was cold, hungry, and in a hole in the ground. But at least I had my elven porn, damnit!”
“I never do releases to try and make or break some contemporary band.”

Source : Interview with Jay Ferguson, www.chartattack.com. August 1, 1998.
“There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning.”
“Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.”

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