"I scowled at the world. And the world scowled back. We were locked in a stare of mutual disgust."

-- Nicole Krauss

#World Quotes #Disgusting Quotes #Staring Quotes

“I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more.”
“once it's jam, it can't be strawberries anymore.”

Source : Marilyn Wallace (1993). “So Shall You Reap”, Crimeline
“I'm very, very worried about the invasion of privacy rights that we're seeing not only from the N.S.A. and the government but from corporate America, as well. We're losing our privacy rights. It's a huge issue.”
“Earth is a family business.”

Source : Bob Mandel, Robert Steven Mandel (1984). “Open Heart Therapy”
“Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.”

Source : Cedric Price (2003). “Re: CP”, p.136, Springer Science & Business Media
“TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.”
“If you do it right, it will last forever.”
“We are in the presence of a recruiting drive systematically and deliberately undertaken by American business, by American universities, and to a lesser extent, American government, often initiated by talent scouts specially sent over here to buy British brains and preempt them for service of the U.S.A. ... I look forward earnestly to the day when some reform of the American system of school education enables them to produce their own scientists so that, in an aimiable free trade of talent, there may be adequate interchange between our country and theirs, and not a one-way traffic.”

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