"As a kid I was goofy and creative and sensitive. I like to think I'm all of those now too - just with wrinkles."

-- Sarah Weeks

#Kids Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Wrinkles Quotes

“My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.”

Source : "Joshua Ferris Interview: Rock Star in the Book Store". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2010.
“Richard Hofstadter, in his famous book which was written in the time of the McCarthy period in the 1950 and 1960s, Anti-intellectualism in American Life, talks about the deep hatred that some Americans had for what they consider to be elitist intellectual activity. I think that's what's happening now.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.”
“The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.”
“I take my craft very seriously.”
“The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.”
“I don't know if it's entirely fair to blame [Dennis Wilson] early death and complete self-destruction on his involvement with Charles Manson, but it was certainly a factor. It affected him psychologically and emotionally.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Some foreign investors accuse us of being unfair to shareholders by using our resources for community development. Yes, this is money that could have made for dividend payouts, but it also is money that's uplifting and improving the quality of life of people in the rural areas where we operate and work. We owe them that.”

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