"For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all."

-- Stephen King

#Mother Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Children Quotes

“I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 26, 2008.
“Of one thing the executive may be sure: that the majority want more of the good things of life, and if they can get them without undue personal effort, so much the better. So the executive naturally tends to promise material gain, contingent of course on his remaining in power. The impetus to personal rule is obvious.”
“Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.”
“This sadness wasn't a huge part of me--I wasn't remotely depressed--but still, it was like a stone I carried in my pocket. I always knew it was there. [p. 179]”
“I prepare to the point where instinct take over...”
“Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair.”
“It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten the reservations were meant to be death camps.”

Source : Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.192, Random House
“All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.”

Source : "Chidambaram: Poor Conditions ‘Dehumanize’ Police". Interview with Geeta Anand, blogs.wsj.com. February 7, 2012.

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