"To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen."

-- Quintus Ennius

#Liberty Quotes #Lips Quotes #Citizens Quotes

“Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.”
“There is that interesting thing that Haughton Forrest was imagining the landscapes. They are so dramatic. They are dark, big, gloomy paintings and he was making them during some of the most ominous massacres in Tasmania. Forrest was recording history but missing the human story.”

Source : Source: www.lucyreesart.com
“But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.”

Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.
“[On Orson Welles:] When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that's been watered.”
“No boy is worth your teenage years!.”
“Then there is that other appeal, the stronger one, of spending, during certain parts of the year, a ten- or twelve- hour working day with bees, which are, when all is said and done, simply a bunch of bugs. But spending my days in close and intimate contact with creatures who are structured so differently from humans, and who get on with life in such a different way, is like being a visitor in an alien but ineffably engaging world.”
“If I have learned anything from my SIMS family: When a child doesn't see his father enough he starts to jump up and down, then his mood level will drop until he pees himself.”
“The secret of the universe is this: The universe doesn't care. That part of the job is yours.”

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