"My voice, at first rough and breaking on the high notes, warms up into something splendid. A voice that would make the mockingjays fall silent and then tumble over themselves to join in."

“I'm like a duck: calm above the water, and paddling like hell underneath.”

“I basically love anything that comes in a hot dog bun... except hot dogs.”

“Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them.”

Source : Nancy Farmer (2013). “The Lord of Opium”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

“My definition of a good hotel is a place I'd stay at.”

“Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists' test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates from the climate of a warm human spirit, which not only contains light, but gives it off.”

“The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.”

Source : "Tomgram: Laura Poitras and Tom Engelhardt, The Snowden Reboot". Interview with Tom Engelhardt, www.tomdispatch.com. October 19, 2014.

“Tracking is a simple exercise. It works because it brings moment-to-moment awareness to the actions you take in the area of your life you want to improve”

“FISHER SEES STOCKS PERMANENTLY HIGH”