"Of tobacco and its consequences, I will say nothing but that the practice is at too bad a pass to leave hope that anything that could be said in books would work a cure. If the floors of boarding-houses, and the decks of steam-boats, and the carpets of the Capitol, do not sicken the Americans into a reform; if the warnings of physicians are of no avail, what remains to be said? I dismiss the nauseous subject."

-- Harriet Martineau

#Book Quotes #Practice Quotes #House Quotes

“That's something you can't get off the wires in New York is people providing intelligent coverage of what your theater company in Podunk is up to. Many of the people who write what we call amateur criticism are professionals in anything other than name and receiving a paycheck. Very often, they know more than the professional critic who might be writing for their local newspaper. So, really, I'm all for it. It's changing the playing field, it's shaking things up, it's going to make the critical environment a healthier environment.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.”
“My family, we're all WASPs.”
“It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.”
“A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.”
“We hold our tongues in check because if they are undisciplined they empty the soul of the strength of heavenly grace, and weaken its healthful vigour.”

Source : Peter Damian (2013). “Spiritual Precepts”, p.53, Lulu Press, Inc
“I know the price of lettuce. You need to understand price and value. You buy the best lettuce you can at the best price you can.”

Source : "Alice's Wonderland". Interview with Rebecca Mead, www.newyorker.com. June 27, 2011.
“Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk." "Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober." He got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he thought it might escape him unless he kept in touch with it. His bedroom door did escape him.”

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