"When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway."

-- Arundhati Roy

#Mean Quotes #Numbers Quotes #America Quotes

“She always set three alarms for fear that the first employees to arrive would discover her sleeping - a Goldilocks without her bears”
“I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my nature is to love too well or from afar or to be grateful for crumbs...well, so be it.”
“Thatâ€™s how we often react when grace comes at us. Itâ€™s awkward. God offers us something thatâ€™s too good to be trueâ€”unearned, unmerited, total forgivenessâ€”and we stand there, stiff and uncomfortable, waiting for the embrace to stop so we can get back to the business of earning our way into heaven. We need to embrace grace. We need to learn how to hug back.”
“Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers.”

Source : Thomas M. Disch (2000). “The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World”, p.211, Simon and Schuster
“The urge to sing was so strong one day I performed in a club and it was very successful.”
“My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.”
“I got frustrated with films like "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact," where the only answer to deal with a Near-Earth Object is basically Bruce Willis with a big drill.”
“Constrain the user's expectations to match the abilities of the software.”

Source : Bruce Tognazzini (1992). “Tog on Interface”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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