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“What have you learned from those times when life was easy?”
Source : Sylvia Browne, Lindsay Harrison (2000). “The Other Side and Back”, p.25, Penguin
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“When I was your age, I used to treat the crust like it was just there to hold the good stuff in. I used to leave the whole back end of it on the plate. As I got older, I learned to appreciate the crust.”
Source : "Fictional character: Rube Sofer". TV Series "Dead Like Me" ("Ghost Story", 2004), 2003-2004.
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“Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.”
Source : Lawrence Clark Powell (1987). “Next to Mother's Milk--: An Engelhard Lecture on the Book”
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“Like everyone else, I have my quirks. For one, I have to own only black cars and the registration has to have eights. It's not something I can explain, it's just there. Another obsession I have is smell. I have to smell good all the time.”
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“...in the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middleman who didn't do diddily”
Source : Song: Twinz, 1998
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“You know it's hard to hear what a bearded man is saying. He can't speak above a whisker.”
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“Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers.”
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“There is a myth that the New Deal programs on their own pulled the US out of the Great Depression and created the conditions for the economic boom after World War II. As an economist, I can tell you, that is not true. In reality, it was mainly World War II that launched the boom - the massive war mobilization, the horrifying destruction and death caused by it, and then the reconstruction in its aftermath. he US was the only advanced capitalist country that was not bombed during the war.”
Source : Source: www.socialistalternative.org
