"We need to send hundreds of millions of dollars down to our public high schools, vocational colleges, and community colleges to begin training people in the green-collar work of the future - things like solar-panel installation, retrofitting buildings that are leaking energy, wastewater reclamation, organic food, materials reuse and recycling."

-- Van Jones

#Work Quotes #School Quotes #College Quotes

“How does one make a movie about decadence these days? Now that we're allowed to do it, it's too late.”
“Kyoya: Some say I only became more calculating but I don't care... because you lose out if you don't have fun, right?”
“Tom Stafford was an odd character, you know - a brilliant guy. He looked weird and I think he took a really defensive attitude about being a hunchback. You know how people can be, giving him a hard time. So he turned that into a defensive mechanism. He would strike first, a lot of times. But he was a great guy, and really those talks we had when I was about 15, out of all of that came the studio over the drugstore and everything else. I'm not saying - I'm no big deal, but I was a part of the birth of the music there.”
“To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.”
“You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It's a sickness like being addicted to alcohol.”
“Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.”
“They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.”

Source : John Connolly (2015). “The Reapers: A Charlie Parker Thriller”, p.53, Simon and Schuster
“Ah, Lady Maccon, how lovely. I did wonder when you would track us down.â€ â€œI was unavoidably delayed by husbands and Ivys,â€ explained Alexia. â€œThese things, regrettably, are bound to occur when one is married and befriended.”

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