"That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty."

-- George Mason

#Tyrants Quotes #People Quotes #Mind Quotes

“One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal for not caring more; but one cannot and it is better, for if one grieved too deeply at other people's tears, life would be unendurable; and every man has sufficient sorrows of his own without taking to heart his neighbour's.”
“I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy.”

Source : Ian McEwan (2010). “Enduring Love”, p.102, Random House
“If I collected all the diamonds in the world, I'd have no 'income' but I'd have a lot of 'assets'. Would my company be worth nothing because I have no income? A lot of Net companies are collecting assets. They have to be measured with a new set of metrics.”
“In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.”
“Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins
“My goal was to show that even if people work in a garage or a supermarket, they have very funny things to say. We never hear their voices.”
“I think of everything that I want to say and then I think of the way that I can say it most precisely. And this has to do with poetry too, to me, that poetry helps me focus on the details of language.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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