"Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception."

-- Ford Madox Ford

#Queens Quotes #Noble Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.”
“Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.”

Source : "Chicago: City on the Make" by Nelson Algren, University of Chicago Press, Ch. 7, 1987.
“What I look for in a voice is for it to be unique. I don't really care if a singer sings well. Really, it's about emotion, or being able to sing the lyrics and actually mean it. A lot of singers sing good notes but forget about what words they use.”
“For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough.”
“We decided it here. Ilyich [Lenin] believed that we shouldn't leave the Whites a live banner to rally around, especially under the present difficult circumstances.”
“There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood.”
“We are not set apart to rule, but chosen and set apart to serve.”
“What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it... which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'.”

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