"One of the great natural phenomena is the way in which a tube of toothpaste suddenly empties itself when it hears that you are planning a trip, so that when you come to pack it is just a twisted shell of its former self, with not even a cubic millimeter left to be squeezed out."

-- Robert Benchley

#Travel Quotes #Self Quotes #Shells Quotes

“I'm one of those people. I can be sold by the candy in life, and then it can be stripped away within a split second and I feel like I've seen too much. And that's the way, I've been like that most of my life, so I could never say I was there yet in any stretch of the imagination.”

Source : Source: www.excellentonline.com
“When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me.”
“I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated.”
“I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.”

Source : "Q: Didn't hanging out with Dylan and the Beatles feel like intruding on a boys' club? A: Yeah. So I'd make tea. And dry Dylan's sweaty vests". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2006.
“Human beings are 'emotional amoral egoists,' driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable.”
“The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.”
“For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.”
“Lack of love from parents often motivates their children to go searching for love in other relationships. This search is often misguided and leads to further disappointment.”

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