"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is perfect in the same way that The Great Gatsby is perfect. Take a pencil and read these books, looking for something that doesn't sound right, something you'd want to change. You'll leave the page untouched."

“I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit.”

Source : Malorie Blackman (2007). “Black & White”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

“Then there were things-- epic, terrible things-- that he didn't tell her but skirted around, like caressing the edges of a wound, hesitant, testing for pain.”

“I want to be mayor, but I don’t need to be mayor. I’m not a career politician.”

“I don't care if I don't act anymore.”

“The only way you can estimate environmental influences is by measuring them.”

“There are many individual senators, including myself, who have said that, at an appropriate time after disposing of the impeachment matter, that an appropriate censure resolution that seems to me should be considered by the Congress.”

Source : "House managers make case against the president". www.cnn.com. January 14, 1999.

“Mum had a job fitting upholstery into cars, but, in the evenings, she worked as a seamstress.”

“In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.”

Source : "Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening". Book by Joseph Machlis, 1955.