"The car suddenly veered off the road and we came to a sliding halt in the gravel. I was hurled against the dashboard. My attorney was slumped over the wheel. â€œWhatâ€™s wrong?â€ I yelled. â€œWe canâ€™t stop here. This is bat country!"

-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Country Quotes #Car Quotes #Wheels Quotes

“Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.”

Source : C.P. Snow (2011). “A Coat Of Varnish”, p.43, House of Stratus
“The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.”
“Kenneth Branagh. There was a time in my life when people would tell me constantly that I look like him. I could do a lot worse than that.”
“Remember when we used to worry about some weirdo having a razor blade inside an apple on Halloween? Not anymore. Like a kid today would eat an apple.”
“It comes down to something really simple: Can I visualize myself playing those scenes? If that happens, then I know that I will probably end up doing it.”
“Much indeed to be regretted, party disputes are now carried to such a length, and truth is so enveloped in mist and false representation, that it is extremely difficult to know through what channel to seek it. This difficulty to one, who is of no party, and whose sole wish is to pursue with undeviating steps a path which would lead this country to respectability, wealth, and happiness, is exceedingly to be lamented. But such, for wise purposes, it is presumed, is the turbulence of human passions in party disputes, when victory more than truth is the palm contended for.”
“In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most important works. It added not a little to the exasperation against him, that he was perpetually declaiming against the insincerity, the impostures, of his persecutors - that wherever he went he found skepticism varnished over and concealed by hypocrisy; and that it was not against the belief of men, but against their pretended belief, that he was fighting; that he was struggling with an orthodoxy that had neither morality nor faith.”
“Barack H. Obama is a landmark presidential figure as the first black, multiracial, multicultural president from Hawaii and the Pacific.”

Source : Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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