"Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!"

-- Allen Ginsberg

#Political Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Everlasting life is a jewel of too great a value to be purchased by the wealth of this world.”
“Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.”
“The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades.”

Source : "Why Demetri Martin's new show is an Important Thing not to miss" by Will Dean, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2009.
“PracÂtice doesnâ€™t make perÂfect. It makes betÂter.”
“What most people find festive-a weekend at a beach shack with friends, a boat trip down a river, a crackling bonfire on a summer night-I see as a bleak nightmare to be grimly endured. I would sooner put lit cigarettes in my eyes than share a vacation house with a crowd.”

Source : Jancee Dunn (2006). “But Enough about Me: From Eighties Geek to Rock 'n' Roll Chic - Adventures in Celebsville”, Headline Review
“It is the incongruous thing in my entire life, this isolation.. ..My work requires it - but I myself have no need or use for it - Perhaps once on a time I found isolation imperative - I think all chrysalides do - all embryos go for the underside of the leaf in the time of body-change preparing for the final reassertion -resurrection - the establishment of the entity. But now I've come up tot the outside of my casements.”

Source : "Marsden Hartley". Book by Gail R. Scott, p. 151, 1988.
“Do you know why I married you, Philip?" "Presumably you wanted the financial security and social prestige I could offer." She chuckled at that and shook her head..."I believed," she confessed somberly, "I honestly believed that I had something to offer you too--something you needed. Do you know what it was?" "I can't imagine." "I thought I could teach you how to laugh and enjoy life." Philip and Caroline”
“I've seriously got to stop turning my girlfriends gay, but like I can really help it. It's my animal appeal.”

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