"California is a tragic country â€” like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations â€” the land rush, the gold rush, the oil rush, the movie rush, the Okie fruit-picking rush, the wartime rush to the aircraft factories â€” followed, in each instance, by counter-migrations of the disappointed and unsuccessful, moving sorrowfully homeward."

-- Christopher Isherwood

#Country Quotes #Moving Quotes #Oil Quotes

“Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.”
“Teeth of winter, sinking into my flesh, my own clacking against each other like knitting needles, and I wish they'd knit a heavy shawl around my shoulders before widening into a yawn. Why do I always yawn when I'm cold?”

Source : Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1996). “The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales”
“We cannot make rivers whole unless we wholly understand them.”
“What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy”
“A gentleman never talks about his tailor.”
“I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.”
“I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in.”

Source : Interview with Leigh Singer, www.ign.com. October 29, 2007.
“... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant.”

Source : 'Crotchet Castle' (1831) ch. 7

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