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“The mining industry might make wealth and power for a few men and women, but the many would always be smashed and battered beneath its giant treads ...”
Source : Katharine Susannah Prichard (1983). “The Roaring Nineties: A Story of the Gold Fields of Western Australia”
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“I felt like people really do their best work when they're having a really good time and feel safe to push the envelope and make a jackass out of themselves.”
Source : Source: www.avclub.com
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“I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.”
Source : Rick Bragg (2010). “All Over but the Shoutin'”, p.20, Vintage
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“If the Founding Fathers could have looked into a crystal ball and seen AK-47s and Glock semi-automatic pistols, I think they would say, you know, 'That's not really what we mean when we say bear arms.'”
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“He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals”
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“When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.”
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“I think we all have a hunger that's hard to name. A lot of people who come to my retreats have never named it before, or else they've named it in church, but they can't actually see the connection between what they're doing with food and this yearning. I call it "the flame" that they have: They yearn for big answers to live a big life. But they have to start with the most basic fears.”
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“You may be embarrassed about the way you looked and the wacky clothes you wore when you were young, but normally, at least it's hidden in a box in the attic.”