"The poor have no business with culture and should beware of it. They cannot eat it; they cannot sell it; they can only pass it on to others and that is why the world is full of hungry people ready to teach us anything under the sun."

-- Aubrey Menen

#People Quotes #Culture Quotes #World Quotes

“I've always loved punk music, so it was really cool to do my first punk song.”
“If laws were real they wouldnâ€™t need to be enforced, because if they were real they couldnâ€™t be broken. Try breaking the law of gravity. Now thatâ€™s a law. Laws made by man are rules reflecting the current status of his moral codes. As he alters and whittles away his morality, casting bits and pieces aside, his codes change to reflect it.”
“But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.”
“If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.”
“... once you were in, they put a note in your file that said you were in therapy, and all your teachers saw that file. They might as well have tattooed CRAZY on your forehead. The next year every teacher would be watching you for the first weird thing you didâ€”and has there ever been a kid who never does anything an adult considers weird?”

Source : John Barnes (2009). “Tales of the Madman Underground”, p.15, Penguin
“I am not a good cue card reader.”
“The year I turned 26 I made $49 million, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.”
“It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.”

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