"I've long suspected that one of the reasons why human beings haven't yet figured out how to carry on a conversation with bottlenosed porpoises, African gray parrots, et al. in their own language is quite simply that we're terrified of what they might say to us - not least because it's entirely possible that they'd be right."

-- John Michael Greer

#Long Quotes #Might Quotes #Als Quotes

“I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.”

Source : "Is Jack Kemp Mr. Right?" By Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. June 28, 1987.
“The first season, 'Supernatural' was very anthology-like. It was like a scary story of the week that the brothers would solve.”
“I never set out to be a role model for large women, I just do what I feel is right.”
“What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an elite of power; that the men of the circles composing this elite, severally and collectively, now make such key decisions as are made; and that, given the enlargement and the centralization of the means of power now available, the decisions that they make and fail to make carry more consequences for more people than has ever been the case in the world history of mankind”

Source : C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.28, Oxford University Press
“A lot of sources said I was born in 1917. That is incorrect. I was born in 1920. 1917 was the year the studios listed as my birth year to make me appear younger.”

Source : "A Conversation with Laraine Day, Hollywood's Girl Next Door". The New York Times Interview, June 9, 1984.
“Trace started on his way again, this time taking the lead. "She's five-four and weighs less than one-twenty. Matt can handle himself." "Says the man with the black eye.”

Source : Lori Foster (2011). “Trace of Fever”, p.156, HQN Books
“It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.”

Source : James Hilton (1941). “Three Famous Novels: Lost Horizon, Good-bye, Mr. Chips [and] Random Harvest”
“Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and nobody to be kicked?”

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