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“Take care of yourselves, and take care of each other.”
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“The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of speech that tends the earthly rootedness of human language. For narrated events always happen somewhere. And for an oral culture, that location is never merely incidental to those occurrences. The events belong, as it were, to the place, and to tell the story of those events is to let the place itself speak through the telling.”
Source : David Abram (2012). “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World”, p.163, Vintage
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“A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive.”
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“The art of conversation lies in listening.”
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“A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.”
Source : "Tom Ford's five easy lessons in how to be a modern gentleman". Interview with Jefferson Hack, www.anothermag.com. March 18, 2011. 
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“The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.”
Source : Walter Moers (2006). “13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear”, p.30, The Overlook Press
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“The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks, from Stalin to Mr. Bean.”
Source : Vincent Cable during House of Commons Debates, www.publications.parliament.uk. November 28, 2007.
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“We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.”
