"The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops"

-- Teju Cole

#Creative Quotes #Energy Quotes #Bus Quotes

“...The world has lost a legend, and I have lost a friend. Johnny Cash was the rare soul who could be both...”
“Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.”
“Many things can make you rich, but only a few things can enrich you.”
“In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.”
“The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.”

Source : Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1972). “Zebulon Pike's Arkansaw Journal: In Search of the Southern Louisiana Purchase Boundary Line (interpreted by His Newly Recovered Maps).”, Greenwood Publishing Group
“I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing.”
“We believe in the empowerment of women and we will not compromise in that goal.”

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