"The more you get into conversations with people, you find out they've been brainwashed by the news and they don't actually know any better."

-- Lissie

#People Quotes #News Quotes #Conversation Quotes

“I lived in Wisconsin for a while, so I keep my eyes on the Packers. I grew up in San Diego, so there's the Chargers, but outside of that, I'm really kind of lame because I don't have a specific team I pull for.”
“I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“There is a kind, I might almost say, of artistic satisfaction, when we are able to survey the enormous wealth of Nature as a regularly ordered whole a kosmos, an image of the logical thought of our own mind.”

Source : Hermann von Helmholtz (1873). “Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects”, p.319
“Oh, do you want protectionism? No, I don't. I just don't want to give my country away to China.”
“When you use God as a means to procure public office, which almost all public officials do, to enact the things you want to enact, and tag God along for the ride, then you're breaking the third commandment. You're not just breaking it, you're openly flaunting your complete disregard for it and, yet, somehow, it keeps getting people elected.”
“Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will....”
“Pounce had it easier than any of us. No one noticed a black cat in the street. He stopped here and there to sniff aught of interest. Wherever our Rat stopped, Pounce was there, close enough to see up the Rat's nose. I was so proud. Now there was a proper god, making himself useful! Since my thought might be deemed blasphemy, I said silent prayers to the Goddess and to Mithros. I begged forgiveness and asked them not to misunderstand. Since I wasn't blasted where I stood, I guess they forgave me, or they hadn't heard my blasphemy.”
“One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.”

You may also like:

Brandi Carlile
Singer-songwriter
Ellie Goulding
Singer-songwriter
Judy Blume
Film writer
Kid Cudi
Actor
Laura Marling
Musician
Michelle Branch
Singer-songwriter
Robbie Williams
Singer-songwriter
Sia Furler
Singer-songwriter
Teddy Thompson
Musician