"If I could have just 1 per cent of the money spent on global armaments, no one in this world would go to bed hungry."

-- Mohamed ElBaradei

#World Quotes #Bed Quotes #Hungry Quotes

“For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.”
“Success has many ways of coming to you. Sometimes it comes right away, and then the film's instantly forgotten. Sometimes you can't remember what won the Academy Award for best picture, and then you can remember the one that didn't. And then sometimes in the afterlife, films that were not successful at all become these giant successes.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.”

Source : Gary Snyder (1969). “Earth House Hold”, p.10, New Directions Publishing
“If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.”
“The Forgotten Man... works, he votes, generally he prays-but he always pays-yes, above all, he pays. He does not want an office; his name never gets into the newspaper except when he gets married or dies. He keeps production going on.... He does not frequent the grocery or talk politics at the tavern. Consequently, he is forgotten.... All the burdens fall on him, or on her, for it is time to remember that the Forgotten Man is not seldom a woman.”
“I'm grateful to have gone through so many different seasons of life because without those years of searching, I'd still have no idea who I am and what Andrew Ripp really has to say.”
“If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well.”

Source : 1986 Coasting, ch.6.
“Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??”

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