"I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain."

-- Rita Mae Brown

#Inspirational Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Work Quotes

“It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But giving up is not an option. There is too much at stake.”
“Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever.”

Source : Minette Walters (2010). “The Ice House”, p.17, Pan Macmillan
“I donâ€™t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.”
“Fast food chains spend a large amount of marketing to get the attention of children. People form their eating habits as children so they try to nurture clients as youngsters.”
“Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation, they're not a record, and they're irrelevant if you have the facts. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)”
“If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.”
“Los Angeles is not Mexico City, but we have many fine nightclubs and restaurants here. It is enough. One must not aim too high.”

Source : Ry Cooder (2013). “Los Angeles Stories”, p.54, City Lights Books
“We wanted the book [Paper Girls] to feel to evoke the '80s, but not necessarily feel that it was drawn then.”

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